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There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20 totaling more than 750 000 girls per year.
  • 2. How young can you die of old age?
  • 3. All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school earlier age at the computer and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

2 Amazing

  • 1. The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap is it not?
  • 2. Always expect the unexpected. Right around Thanksgiving when the new Alex Cross will be out. It's called Four Blind Mice and it's a pretty amazing story about several murders inside the military.
  • 3. I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger makes dull men witty but it keeps them poor.
  • 2. Anger has a way of seeping into every other emotion and planting itself in there.
  • 3. I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.
  • 2. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.

5 Architecture

  • 1. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
  • 2. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
  • 3. Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
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