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To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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Motivation,

Author:

Robert Louis Stevenson
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Category: Motivation

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. Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age.
  • 2. I've been screaming at the top of my lungs at my family 'Work out! Work out! Old age is coming!'
  • 3. The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When you first have a baby your life doesn't change. I mean you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it's just amazing. But you still get to be you. Once they get to like five six and school and it starts to get like 'Wow they got real problems. They're my responsibility.' Oh my God. That is overwhelming.
  • 2. I have a wonderful husband. I have three amazing kids.
  • 3. When Maurice touched a keyboard it was like something from a movie magical. He would always give you something from a movie and you'd go what did you just play… immediately inspirational writings amazing. That's what we're going to miss.

3 Anger

  • 1. There are two things a person should never be angry at what they can help and what they cannot.
  • 2. I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have and it's cathartic as well because I create art out of anger something positive out of something negative.
  • 3. I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an argument I feel it like handcuffs and on anger time I throw it in a basket. Poor Dave he bought me three wedding rings already!

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 2. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 3. This year as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America's independence please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The loftier the building the deeper must the foundation be laid.
  • 2. The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them not make them worse.
  • 3. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
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