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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

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Saint Patricks Day,

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John Millington Synge
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

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. Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions measurements and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love beauty friendship or decency for example?
  • 2. Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.
  • 3. Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I look into the crowd I see young and old black and white – it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
  • 2. Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.
  • 3. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

3 Anger

  • 1. It's a very difficult thing for people to accept seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.
  • 2. Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
  • 3. In the heat of our campaigns we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet on the whole our political process has served us well.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Make big plans aim high in hope and work remembering that a noble logical diagram once recorded will not die.
  • 2. I was a student at Columbia College actually in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out.
  • 3. French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design it looks to the community.
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