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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society – more briefly to find your real job and do it.

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Category: Relationship

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 can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.
  • 2. We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary I don't know why people go on about it so much.
  • 3. Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
  • 2. I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' – none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.
  • 3. I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

3 Anger

  • 1. I've spent a lot of time and money trying to keep my anger in control.
  • 2. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
  • 3. 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.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.
  • 2. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 3. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

5 Architecture

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
  • 3. I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.
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