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Patriotism has served at different times as widely different ends as a razor which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

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Charles Edward Montague
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Category: Patriotism

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. Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.
  • 2. Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
  • 3. In fact my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've seen Bruno Mars before he's amazing.
  • 2. John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
  • 3. I thank you God for this most amazing day for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes.

3 Anger

  • 1. All through life I've harbored anger rather than expressed it at the moment.
  • 2. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 3. I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 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. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
  • 2. The process I go through in the art and the architecture I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
  • 3. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
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