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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. Everyone talks about age but it's not about age. It's about work ethic. Winning never gets old.
  • 2. I will never be an old man. To me old age is always 15 years older than I am.
  • 3. Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom innocence with understanding and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There were two things going on: 1) I had already established in my own mind where I wanted to go with the next series and having James around as a Grey Eminence would have complicated matters. He had had an amazing life and it was time to bid him good-bye.
  • 2. Spinning has been such an amazing part of my exercise. I love the music the energy and the sweat. It's a tough class which makes me feel like I've really accomplished something. It's a great way to burn fat and lean out the body. An all-around win!
  • 3. Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world – they're loyal and fun but when they get mad they'll try to kill you.

3 Anger

  • 1. I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
  • 2. He who angers you conquers you.
  • 3. Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.
  • 2. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
  • 3. Architecture is invention.
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