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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. I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.
  • 2. Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.
  • 3. The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions.

2 Amazing

  • 1. To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
  • 2. If you're a basketball player and you don't stop and take pictures with your fans you can have an amazing game and everyone still loves you.
  • 3. I know plenty of actresses in their early thirties who look amazing although there's that old saying: 'Ladies get older men get more distinguished.'

3 Anger

  • 1. I understand Tea Partyers' anger with the system but they are in way over their heads and often racially motivated and I can't be part of that.
  • 2. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul angry or gentle. Anger is just and pity is just but judgement is never just.
  • 3. The intoxication of anger like that of the grape shows us to others but hides us from ourselves.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 2. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
  • 2. Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
  • 3. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
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