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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.

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Alfred North Whitehead
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Category: Religion

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. Up until age 40 most men are just not as mature as women. So it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.
  • 2. Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
  • 3. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 2. If you pay attention to the world it's an amazing place. If you don't it's whatever you think it is.
  • 3. When you think of what Americans accomplished building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America not just from abroad but internally.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger is never without an argument but seldom with a good one.
  • 2. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.
  • 3. Anger cannot be dishonest.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
  • 3. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
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