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This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work – they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night perhaps.

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Frederick Law Olmsted
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Category: Strength

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. Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.
  • 2. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
  • 3. What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Southern California they have been amazing. They're totally with us.
  • 2. Going to a concert can sometimes be very difficult. It can be a long journey. There's the ticket prices. But when the music goes to the community – not the community coming to the concert – they say 'Wow! I didn't know that this music was so amazing!'
  • 3. And I thought when I have kids that's the sort of well told silly and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic a fairy tale classic.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.
  • 2. Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards for they are subtle and quick to anger.
  • 3. Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union they insist there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which in my book is a good definition for friendship.
  • 2. So I think you have to marry for the right reasons and marry the right person.
  • 3. Last week the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11 we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I'd like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.
  • 2. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
  • 3. Architecture theory is very interesting.
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