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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

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Charles Caleb Colton
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Category: Knowledge

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. A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
  • 2. As technology advances it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'
  • 3. You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
  • 2. My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing… it's so freaking delicious but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
  • 3. You know when I was a kid waiting on the bus I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course all of it has kind of come to fruition.

3 Anger

  • 1. I did not want to put myself on the line as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive possessive – and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger – or my own reputation.
  • 2. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  • 3. I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger I can turn that negative energy into something positive.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 3. Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. My passion and great enjoyment for architecture and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.
  • 2. The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
  • 3. A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
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