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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements yet these are in truth very often owing not so much to design as chance.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Design

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. I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry it would be filtered through the lens of race sex and age.
  • 2. There's a small club of women who are willing to age.
  • 3. Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I suppose it's amazing when you think how many things people get involved in that don't work.
  • 2. Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
  • 3. The right really dominates radio and it's amazing how much energy the right spends telling us that the press is slanted to the left when it really isn't. They want to shut other people up. They really don't understand the First Amendment.

3 Anger

  • 1. I think there is a big difference between expressing the pain and anger that many African Americans and other people of color may feel versus language that I think now crosses the line and goes into hate.
  • 2. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
  • 3. Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all there was this sense of guilt and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. This anniversary serves to help remind the American people that in the wake of one of the greatest political scandals and misuse of power in our history as a nation scandal produced important reforms that served this nation well for two decades.
  • 2. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
  • 2. If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
  • 3. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.
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