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Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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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. Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.
  • 2. A woman tells her doctor 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says 'It's old age.' The woman says 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay – you're ugly as well.'
  • 3. Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job her family and her community and has been a role model of mine for many many years. I'm extremely proud of her.
  • 2. Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written.
  • 3. It's pretty amazing being me.

3 Anger

  • 1. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
  • 2. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
  • 3. It is only with burning anger that we can speak of this attack by counter-revolutionary reactionary elements against the capital of our country against our people's democratic order and the power of the working class.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 2. I think architecture has to be a gift.
  • 3. Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
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