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War remains the decisive human failure.

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Failure,

Author:

John Kenneth Galbraith
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Category: Failure

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. In the age of television image becomes more important than substance.
  • 2. In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
  • 3. My mother was 45 when she had me so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

2 Amazing

  • 1. When I see myself in the videogame it's amazing how realistic I look. This is the most authentic and realistic soccer game I have ever seen. It is like I'm looking in a mirror. The attention to detail is incredible.
  • 2. If you spend enough time in or around Washington you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.
  • 3. My heart is so light that it's amazing. I get to play all this grief all this loss all this disaster and chaos. It's hysterically funny. I am very light.

3 Anger

  • 1. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
  • 2. The anger of a person who is strong can always bide its time.
  • 3. After my second-to-last record 'The Greatest' I had gone on tour for a while and I didn't play an instrument for about five years. And I got kind of – it's not self-esteem or whatever or anger toward myself – but disappointed in myself that I hadn't been challenging myself to learn musically.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. There is no more lovely friendly and charming relationship communion or company than a good marriage.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources to move into the future.
  • 2. The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture their amphitheaters for wild beasts to fight in.
  • 3. The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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