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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Category: Society

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. Youth is the best time to be rich and the best time to be poor.
  • 2. Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.
  • 3. Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

2 Amazing

  • 1. A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit simmer you know I wanted to soak it all in – the moment was amazing.
  • 2. Warren Spector is amazing and his team is as good as any in the business. Shame to see all the revenues from their game entangled with all the madness of the Dallas office.
  • 3. Paul Farmer has helped to build amazing health care system in one of the poorest areas of Haiti. He founded Partners in Health which serves the destitute and the sick in many parts of the world from Haiti to Boston and from Russia to Peru.

3 Anger

  • 1. I share the anger but ultimately to govern this country it takes more than anger. It takes experience. It takes positions that reflect the best values of the American people.
  • 2. I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned through experience to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.
  • 3. Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. And currently there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics Australian Federation my 50th Birthday and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary.
  • 2. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.
  • 3. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
  • 2. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
  • 3. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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