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The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander to do.

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David Herbert Lawrence
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Category: History

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. My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age race or financial status.
  • 2. One already feels like an anachronism writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.
  • 3. I've had to be a man since I was 12 or 13. I had a job. And I was playing the piano for people twice my age. Handling responsibility is what makes a man a man.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I walk into a kids' store and it's amazing the types of instruments – little squeaky things rattling things spinning tops.
  • 2. I think Polanski's an amazing director.
  • 3. When you're offered things it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

3 Anger

  • 1. The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
  • 2. Deep down my mom had long suspected I was gay… Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told.
  • 3. Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast or murder thy friend.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.
  • 3. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Form follows function.
  • 2. Architecture in general is frozen music.
  • 3. I see architecture not as Gropius did as a moral venture as truth but as invention in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.
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