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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Category: Faith

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've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
  • 2. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
  • 3. It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education health for people that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It's obscene.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The unconditional love for you child it's truly amazing.
  • 2. I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself… I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.
  • 3. I was impressed by Hendrix. His attitude was brilliant. Even the way he walked was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. The one who cannot restrain their anger will wish undone what their temper and irritation prompted them to do.
  • 2. Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil to make us vehement against him not to set us in array against each other.
  • 3. Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.
  • 2. Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
  • 3. Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
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