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There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

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. You live in a deranged age more deranged that usual because in spite of great scientific and technological advances man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
  • 2. In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past we have arrived.
  • 3. We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program you have to reform it for the next generation.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins I would love to work with Meryl Streep I would love to work with DeNiro I would love to work with Johnny Depp I'd love to work with Brad Pitt Matt Damon Gwyneth Paltrow… I think she's amazing.
  • 2. I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable but it looks amazing ' so it's all good.
  • 3. My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid I would do the dumbest trick which now that I look back on some things she would love it she would say that's amazing or if I'd make the ugliest drawing she would hang it up. She was amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin.
  • 2. The poor monkey quietly seated on the ground seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
  • 3. Us investigators who went out into the field were faced on occasion with a lot of anger by people saying why has it taken you five or six year to come and see me?

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 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. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
  • 2. I see music as fluid architecture.
  • 3. Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
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