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So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business the rest doesn't matter happiness or unhappiness.

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David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: Business

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. I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was but I was already playing against older guys.
  • 2. There are people whose watch stops at a certain hour and who remain permanently at that age.
  • 3. I must be more sensible and realize that at my age illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Urs Fischer specializes in making jaws drop. Cutting giant holes in gallery walls digging a crater in Gavin Brown's gallery floor in 2007 creating amazing hyperrealist wallpaper for a group show at Tony Shafrazi: It all percolates with uncanny destructiveness operatic uncontrollability and barbaric sculptural power.
  • 2. I don't know how many thoughts we have a second but it's quite an amazing number and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.
  • 3. There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does it's just one of those polite things where you don't question their belief in ghosts. You just go 'Oh yeah okay.' It's amazing to be able to have conversations like that.

3 Anger

  • 1. Speak the truth do not yield to anger give if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
  • 2. How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
  • 3. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 2. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
  • 3. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.

5 Architecture

  • 1. But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel and the love involved. God it's fantastic.
  • 2. I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
  • 3. 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.
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