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We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

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Alexis de Tocqueville
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Category: Business

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 man growing old becomes a child again.
  • 2. Those who love deeply never grow old they may die of old age but they die young.
  • 3. He who has not the spirit of this age has all the misery of it.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There is such amazing talent at Disney. My job is 100% creative and I am very excited to creatively lead them.
  • 2. The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
  • 3. So when I go home sometimes even when I had an amazing game I always think about what I missed.

3 Anger

  • 1. The flame of anger bright and brief sharpens the barb of love.
  • 2. In the final analysis the incident is seen as originating from an emotional expression of the frustration and anger of the proud people of China who had been subject to ever increasing oppression from without and decadent corruption from within.
  • 3. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. 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.
  • 2. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.
  • 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. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
  • 2. Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks we must participate in the political struggle.
  • 3. All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art like the art of fireworks.
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