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No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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. For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age Obama put forward a tepid agenda.
  • 2. You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
  • 3. What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There are a lot of people using technology that are playing to a click with backing vocals already stuck in there on some computerized thing that runs along in time to the show so they have these amazing vocals that are only partly the guys on stage producing them at the time.
  • 2. I am auditioning again – getting back to theatre would be amazing.
  • 3. I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing they weren't heels they were little shoes but they were velvet and they were blue.

3 Anger

  • 1. A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf if it's for others deserving of your anger your empathy.
  • 2. Guilt is anger directed at ourselves – at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others – at what they did or did not do.
  • 3. Words can be said in bitterness and anger and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away they just echo around.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You might say that when you step inside you're entering a honorific space but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
  • 2. I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
  • 3. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
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