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The office of government is not to confer happiness but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

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William Ellery Channing
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Category: Government

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. Men of age object too much consult too long adventure too little repent too soon and seldom drive business home to the full period but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
  • 2. Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.
  • 3. It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries but is dead to all the pleasures.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I swim like a fish and I have an amazing kick.
  • 2. It was amazing to me that all of a sudden I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
  • 3. I kicked the door open and I'm gonna hold my leg in there. I'm keeping the door open for all these amazing female singer-songwriters that are coming out.

3 Anger

  • 1. The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart the less capable you are of loving in the present.
  • 2. My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved.
  • 3. We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 2. Marriage is the most natural state of man and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.
  • 3. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

5 Architecture

  • 1. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 2. The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.
  • 3. If architecture is as is sometimes said music set in concrete then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
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