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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. I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
  • 2. In the age of the individual's liquidation the question of individuality must be raised anew.
  • 3. I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Like most people my age my job is the main focus of my life. I don't have some kind of jet-setting fabulous lifestyle where I'm constantly in situations to acquire amazing anecdotes that's it.
  • 2. I have a full life: I have two amazing kids I have great friends great family. And right now that's plenty for me to manage. A new relationship just seems like way too much work.
  • 3. Bruce Lee was very famous. I watched his movies and he is amazing. He is a martial arts master his philosophy his movement both physically and mentally were very strong.

3 Anger

  • 1. When anger rises think of the consequences.
  • 2. Anger is a short madness.
  • 3. I have to say that anger is the blanket that comes around me and that blunts and blurs my sense of proportion.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.
  • 3. The London games mark the 24th anniversary of my winning two golds and setting the world record in the heptathlon. Someone is going to want it records are made to be broken – it's only a matter of time. I hope mine will outlive me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
  • 2. When I write now I do not invent situation characters or actions but rather structures and discursive forms textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves as in architecture or the plastic arts.
  • 3. The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
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