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When you choose your friends don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

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Friendship,

Author:

W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Friendship

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 am as I've said merely competent. But in an age of incompetence that makes me extraordinary.
  • 2. A face to lose youth for to occupy age With the dream of meet death with.
  • 3. Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

2 Amazing

  • 1. There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.
  • 2. The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations sold them to pension funds then sold them short then bought credit default swap insurance on them are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
  • 3. Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination… a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger's not a good emotion.
  • 2. I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
  • 3. Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. So while an incredible amount of progress has been made on this fifth anniversary I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back all the way.
  • 2. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and above all timesaving to make them identical.
  • 2. The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
  • 3. I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college but I'd done them because it was fun.
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