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We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

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Friedrich Durrenmatt
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Category: Patriotism

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. If you age with somebody you go through so many roles – you're lovers friends enemies colleagues strangers you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is if you're with your soulmate.
  • 2. No one can avoid aging but aging productively is something else.
  • 3. As you age naturally your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that you deny your heritage.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I mean there are some amazing storytelling being done on the small screen right now. That's what so cool about being in television right now. Studios networks are starting to throw more resources better writers more production values… and to be part of that is awesome.
  • 2. I thought it was amazing to work with authors to get a manuscript and try to make up a cover for it.
  • 3. I mean it's amazing that I get to meet all these people. I've learned so much from all of them. I just worked with Sofia Coppola and that was amazing. I learned so much from her. I can't even describe how much fun I had.

3 Anger

  • 1. Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger there the sweetest pain here consuming hatred there the childlike smile of serene humility.
  • 2. I love each and every one of you but like my own family you thrill you frustrate you anger.
  • 3. In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking when my anger was aroused I grabbed the nearest brick rock or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.
  • 2. 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.
  • 3. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

5 Architecture

  • 1. No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
  • 2. Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
  • 3. I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s and into my 30s I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
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