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Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

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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. Admiration of the proletariat like that of dams power stations and aeroplanes is part of the ideology of the machine age.
  • 2. I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.
  • 3. Second to agriculture humbug is the biggest industry of our age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I like making pies. I have a bunch of fruit trees in my backyard. My loquat tree sprouted and I like making loquat pie. They're really hard to peel and everything and it took me forever but they make the best pies. They're amazing.
  • 2. Half a century ago the amazing courage of Rosa Parks the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
  • 3. My dad was a journalist. He was in Rwanda right after the genocide. In Berlin when the wall came down. He was always disappearing and coming back with amazing stories. So telling stories for a living made sense to me.

3 Anger

  • 1. When angry count to four when very angry swear.
  • 2. Do not follow vain desires for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust greed and anger.
  • 3. Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If I have a style I am not aware of it.
  • 2. In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
  • 3. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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