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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence but we cling desperately to our chains.

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Anne Sullivan Macy
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Category: Imagination

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. I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age – which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.
  • 2. Old age comes on suddenly and not gradually as is thought.
  • 3. We are always the same age inside.

2 Amazing

  • 1. To be honest everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that if I didn't have time off I wouldn't be able to focus on.
  • 2. I'd like to share my experiences and the lessons I've learned and hopefully create some amazing fun courses.
  • 3. Directing is a really kind of amazing thing because you're helping others and in the middle of that you have to worry about yourself.

3 Anger

  • 1. My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger depression drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything now he was up he was happy he was filled with his dream.
  • 2. I have some anger issues.
  • 3. Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger the cost of hatred the waste of spirits.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 2. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.
  • 3. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.

5 Architecture

  • 1. A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
  • 2. Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
  • 3. Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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