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Truth is tough. It will not break like a bubble at the touch nay you may kick it about all day like a football and it will be round and full at evening.

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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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Category: Truth

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. Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.
  • 2. I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.
  • 3. We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.
  • 2. I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
  • 3. I am auditioning again – getting back to theatre would be amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
  • 2. For every minute you remain angry you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.
  • 3. Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

5 Architecture

  • 1. So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.
  • 2. Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
  • 3. 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.
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