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We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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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. We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill… it demands a broader vision capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
  • 2. As men get older the toys get more expensive.
  • 3. The one thing that unites all human beings regardless of age gender religion or ethnic background is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

2 Amazing

  • 1. She's 32 and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
  • 2. If you think you don't want to play another psychopath but the script is amazing and the director is fantastic and the story is incredible then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row.
  • 3. Oh my God this amazing cool breeze is coming through my window and the sun is shining. I'm happy.

3 Anger

  • 1. Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life I frequently precipitated what I feared most the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
  • 2. The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.
  • 3. Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. On July 18 we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires Argentina.
  • 3. 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.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
  • 2. The greatest advances of civilization whether in architecture or painting in science and literature in industry or agriculture have never come from centralized government.
  • 3. In fact it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
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