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One of the most destructive things that's happening in modern society is that we are losing our sense of the bonds that bind people together – which can lead to nightmares of social collapse.

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Alexander McCall Smith
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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. You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
  • 2. Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age.
  • 3. The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

2 Amazing

  • 1. In my job people tell you that all the time: 'This shoot was great. You look amazing.' But you never know what they say when you turn away.
  • 2. I mean there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios networks are starting to throw more resources better writers more production values… and to be part of that is awesome.
  • 3. It's really sad looking at people like Lindsay Lohan. She's an amazing actress but you see what happens when people know too much about your personal life. They start not being able to look at you the same way professionally. I don't want that to happen to me.

3 Anger

  • 1. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy my pain my anger.
  • 2. Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
  • 3. It absolutely helped – to write the father in both 'Juicy' and 'Beasts ' I had to see the whole story from his point of view. All of a sudden I understood more of what my own father must be going through – the fear the frustration the anger… the hope that he'll leave a legacy.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 2. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 3. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
  • 2. Each new situation requires a new architecture.
  • 3. I loved logic math computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
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