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Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in or the fortunes they have met with.

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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. As a result of the digital age and the decline of first-class mail there is no question that the Postal Service must change and develop a new business model.
  • 2. Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.
  • 3. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it and given a family character as it were to the century.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how ideas start out isn't it?
  • 2. It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world… A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit… But it caught on especially with young people – they surprised me most of all.
  • 3. It is pretty amazing. My parents who came from Nicaragua to the U.S. – who would have thought that they would have American kids on the Olympic team? I think that's the epitome of the Olympic dream.

3 Anger

  • 1. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 2. Well all comedy starts with anger. You get angry and its never for a good reason right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
  • 3. I use the music to vent and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety stress and depression so that's how the album came out so dark.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture in general is frozen music.
  • 2. The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
  • 3. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
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