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Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men and makes the biggest idiots clever.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. At a certain age death becomes familiar to you-or a loss becomes familiar-the tragedies that are more commonplace in life.
  • 2. It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it with very old people.
  • 3. In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I'll watch a Pixar movie over and over and over again. I'll be with friends of mine who have kids that want to watch 'Finding Nemo ' and I'm like 'Yeah okay let's watch 'Nemo' again for the seven billionth time! ' because they're amazing movies.
  • 2. Former President Bill Clinton who is widely regarded as a political mastermind may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
  • 3. I think the fact that I made enough noise in the world that I might be remembered is an amazing achievement. You can't ask for more than that.

3 Anger

  • 1. The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
  • 2. But one of the hardest things for me to do was to access anger. I could do it on stage. But when I did it on film it was hard for me. That probably has to do with the intimacy of film. And my own personal issues with expressing anger. So I had to learn how to do that.
  • 3. Allowing children to show their guilt show their grief show their anger takes the sting out of the situation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
  • 2. It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
  • 3. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
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