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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

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C. Northcote Parkinson
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Category: Society

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. Children under five are the poorest age group in America and one in four infants toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.
  • 2. To me old age is always fifteen years older than I am.
  • 3. When I was at school I was in choirs more than anything else from a very young age about 9 years old. And then I started taking drum lessons.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Actually we got signed in November of 2000 with Dreamworks which is the most amazing label. We have friends on other labels and though we are not selling millions of records yet they treat us with tons of respect and give us some very good guidance.
  • 2. My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.
  • 3. It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

3 Anger

  • 1. I want to express myself to feel that what I feel is real. My joy my pain my anger.
  • 2. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.
  • 3. Anger is a great force. If you control it it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love trust partnership tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 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. I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting something connected to the fine arts.
  • 2. Until the Eighties Oslo was a rather boring town but it's changed a lot and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
  • 3. What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.
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