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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

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Courage,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Courage

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. Old age believe me is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
  • 2. When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry in painting and in music.
  • 3. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The travel the amazing work I have had the chance to do the meetings with different people are all very inspiring and give me lots of positive energy.
  • 2. I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
  • 3. What turns me on is to walk into a sold-out venue. The audiences are so much the same as they were in the '60s. It's just an amazing thing. I can't explain it but I hope it never stops.

3 Anger

  • 1. Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.
  • 2. I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
  • 3. Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
  • 2. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
  • 3. I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
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