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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. I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
  • 2. The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.
  • 3. Another principle is the deepest affections of our hearts gather around some human form in which are incarnated the living thoughts and ideas of the passing age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. My public image is so low-key but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.
  • 2. Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them not all of them.
  • 3. New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. Insurgents have capitalized on popular resentment and anger towards the United States and the Iraqi government to build their own political financial and military support and the faith of Iraqi citizens in their new government has been severely undermined.
  • 2. I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger or I'd have to accept that it happened.
  • 3. Unless and until Barack Obama addresses the full depth of Americans' anger with his full arsenal of policy smarts and political gifts his presidency and worse our economy will be paralyzed.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
  • 2. More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse.
  • 3. We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.

5 Architecture

  • 1. The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have because when you're talking about building a house you're talking about dreams.
  • 2. Architecture is invention.
  • 3. Architecture aims at Eternity.
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