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Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Category: Knowledge

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. There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century are now selling more oil than they find and are thus in the throes of liquidation.
  • 2. This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future which is a little ironic since we may not have one.
  • 3. Compared to a lot of actresses my age I'm actually overweight.

2 Amazing

  • 1. What an amazing opportunity to do something like direct a movie and step out of your creative comfort zone and yet do something that is also so familiar at the same time. I was also just excited to have the chance to direct which I may never get to do again.
  • 2. I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.
  • 3. Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 2. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.
  • 3. 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.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 2. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays I go Fridays.
  • 3. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.

5 Architecture

  • 1. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
  • 2. The English light is so very subtle so very soft and misty that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
  • 3. I am but an architectural composer.
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