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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

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Fear,

Author:

Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Fear

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. Situational unawareness in the private marketplace or on the battlefield will cost you your livelihood or your life. In the Age of Obama however such willful ignorance is a job prerequisite. The less you know the better.
  • 2. Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
  • 3. It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity and indeed of every age in the world have passed through this fiery persecution.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
  • 2. Christina Ricci is amazing the most professional actor I think I've ever met. You can be chatting with her and when they call action she's right there.
  • 3. I have the most amazing support network around me.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger may repast with thee for an hour but not repose for a night the continuance of anger is hatred the continuance of hatred turns malice.
  • 2. Anger is a great force. If you control it it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.
  • 3. Somebody hits me I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 2. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 3. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 2. Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
  • 3. Of course I know very little about architecture and the older I get the less I know.
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