Quotes with 4-and-a-half

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  • Brendan I. Koerner A duped newspaper or magazine could contend that a fiction-spouting journalist obtained part of his salary via fraud, and use a criminal proceeding to try and recoup that money. Given the profession's notoriously low wages, however, it's probably not worth the publicity headache and legal fees. No news organization has ever pursued such a case.
    Brendan I. Koerner
    American author (1974 - )
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  • Alexander Haig A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • Joseph Fort Newton A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last.
    Joseph Fort Newton
    American Baptist minister (1876 - 1950)
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  • Luigi Pirandello A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • John B. S. Haldane A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult.
    John B. S. Haldane
    British scientist, writer (1892 - 1964)
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  • Augustus William Hare A faith that sets bounds to itself, that will believe so much and no more, that will trust thus far and no further, is none.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bob Harrington A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
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  • Charles Swindoll A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.
    Charles Swindoll
    American Pastor, writer
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  • Buzz Aldrin A family needs to work as a team, supporting each other's individual aims and aspirations.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Susan Sontag A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Enid Bagnold A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
    Enid Bagnold
    British writer, playwright (1889 - 1981)
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  • Bill Cosby A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi A feeling that was possibly generated by experiences in my previous work on cosmic rays; more likely it was inborn and was the reason why, as a young man, I went into the field of cosmic rays.
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  • Carl Reiner A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a funny bone - you either have it or you don't. And by the way - when you get it, we don't know it.
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  • Gloria Steinem A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • Alexis Carrel A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Bruce Dickinson A few of these interviews have gone slightly awry, because every now and again there has been the odd conflict of interest between interviews because of the Iron Maiden record, and I am a bit long-winded.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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