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Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown that terror becomes the known.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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. Even from a very early age I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.
  • 2. To be perfectly honest I think that as I'm growing older I'm just growing more impatient. I'll be very happy if at some point people say 'Michael's grown wiser and softer in his old age.' But we'll have to wait and see what my next project is.
  • 3. We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I also met early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.
  • 2. Arnold Schwarzenegger I don't know if you'd call him a great actor but he's amazing in terms of his presence and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.
  • 3. Do you like my suit? I think this is an amazing suit don't you think?

3 Anger

  • 1. Let us not look back in anger nor forward in fear but around in awareness.
  • 2. Anger elicits anger fear elicits fear no matter how well meaning we may be.
  • 3. On banks I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The day before the anniversary of D-Day we lost a man who was equaled by few and surpassed by none as a leader in the cause of freedom: Ronald Reagan.
  • 2. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 3. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I think that narrative fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater art history architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
  • 2. Engineering medicine business architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short with design.
  • 3. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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