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Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. You have to be desirable. And that's why so many woman of my age or even younger are pushed to Botox and plastic surgery all the things that people say 'Why do women do this?' Where do you go in your 50s in your career?
  • 2. Old age is a tyrant who forbids under pain of death the pleasures of youth.
  • 3. I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.
  • 2. It's not always thankless. Let's face it – it's not always thankless. I've gotten a lot of really great recognition and I've worked with amazing people.
  • 3. Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity and yet how amazing is it nothing is less practiced?

3 Anger

  • 1. Yeah to me acting is very therapeutic. I get out a lot of anger and frustration.
  • 2. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.
  • 3. Speak when you are angry – and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.
  • 2. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
  • 2. I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
  • 3. It is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
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