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Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

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1 Age

  • 1. I think I'm a bit less inhibited and not thinking too much before speaking. It's not about being shameful I'm just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.
  • 2. The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty then another for the next thirty years.
  • 3. In my youth I stressed freedom and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.

2 Amazing

  • 1. People always think that if you eat anything as a model it's amazing. I used to tease them and say you know I'm going to throw up afterwards.
  • 2. Most actors want to sink their teeth into amazing material.
  • 3. After all these years it's still amazing what Obama is allowed to get away with. He says low gas prices in 2009 were caused by a terrible economy but then claims that the lower number of illegal aliens crossing the border is because of his border policies not the same lousy economy.

3 Anger

  • 1. The anger of a person who is strong can always bide its time.
  • 2. My passion and energy get mistaken for anger.
  • 3. I'm generally quite an angry person and I like to channel my anger toward something creative.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening May 15 1876 at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
  • 2. I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw the worse things got for me musically.
  • 3. And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team the only undefeated season.

5 Architecture

  • 1. You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth at it's best.
  • 2. To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
  • 3. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design from the architect to the builder have an attachment to the architecture although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
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