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True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

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Friendship,

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Henry David Thoreau
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Category: Friendship

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. People pay to see movies with women looking beautiful but I think there will be a place for me to play women looking my own age.
  • 2. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
  • 3. The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
  • 2. It's amazing how age after age in country after country and in all languages Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
  • 3. Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being and the fairytale exists with that man.

3 Anger

  • 1. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
  • 2. He who angers you conquers you.
  • 3. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist – because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died – she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.
  • 2. The heart of marriage is memories and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns then your marriage is a gift from the gods.
  • 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. When I'm in London Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
  • 2. I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
  • 3. I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture art and architecture and learned of the existence of the game of GO which I still play.
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