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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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. Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
  • 2. We virtually never feel our age but thinking that we should can lead to disaster.
  • 3. When a noble life has prepared old age it is not decline that it reveals but the first days of immortality.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Alison Lohman is an amazing actress. I was so proud to work with her.
  • 2. Brains don't really smell but what's amazing about the brain is that it's almost like scrambled eggs or soft tofu almost like a gel. The brain controls so much of what we do but you could put your finger right through it.
  • 3. Any day acting is an amazing day.

3 Anger

  • 1. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
  • 2. I suppose there's an anger in all of us. Some hidden rage that you keep at bay.
  • 3. There is not in nature a thing that makes man so deformed so beastly as doth intemperate anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 2. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
  • 3. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

5 Architecture

  • 1. If architecture had nothing to do with art it would be astonishingly easy to build houses but the architect's task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.
  • 2. An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
  • 3. I mean certainly writing painting photography dance architecture there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
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