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Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
  • 2. Age is something that doesn't matter unless you are a cheese.
  • 3. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.
  • 2. Amazingly when you add life and consciousness to the equation you can actually explain some of the biggest puzzles of science.
  • 3. Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Generally speaking if a human being never shows anger then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
  • 2. Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?
  • 3. When I was younger I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
  • 2. Architecture begins where engineering ends.
  • 3. I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
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