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What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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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. Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can't really control life – so you'd better live it while it's here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.
  • 2. Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age when the sense of curiosity has withered.
  • 3. I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.
  • 2. In fact it is amazing how much European films – Italian French German and English – have recovered a certain territory of the audience in their countries over the last few years.
  • 3. Well there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

3 Anger

  • 1. The ignorant mind with its infinite afflictions passions and evils is rooted in the three poisons. Greed anger and delusion.
  • 2. The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul angry or gentle. Anger is just and pity is just but judgement is never just.
  • 3. My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes cry rant and rave and at the sound of the bell simmer down and go about business as usual.

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. Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.
  • 3. I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot.

5 Architecture

  • 1. It was the drawing that led me to architecture the search for light and astonishing forms.
  • 2. People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
  • 3. The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
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