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They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

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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. Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age my enemy!
  • 2. A moment comes which comes but rarely in history when we step out from the old to the new when an age ends and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
  • 3. When marrying ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how stress keeps you trim.
  • 2. One thing that is almost always said to me is I grew up with you. They are meeting me and feel that they actually grew up with me. I was with them during their play hours and thinking hours. I was a part of their childhoods. That's one of the most amazing things.
  • 3. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.

3 Anger

  • 1. Usually when people are sad they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry they bring about a change.
  • 2. In our daily life we encounter people who are angry deceitful intent only on satisfying their own needs. There is so much anger distrust greed and pettiness that we are losing our capacity to work well together.
  • 3. Never go to bed angry stay up and fight.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 2. I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up turn on the TV and watch the parade so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear though to stay warm!
  • 3. Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom wait until they have been married longer.

5 Architecture

  • 1. An important work of architecture will create polemics.
  • 2. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
  • 3. Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
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