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  • Bruce Jackson The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Andrea Dworkin The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Anna Garlin Spencer The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
    Anna Garlin Spencer
    American educator and feminist (1851 - 1931)
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  • Allan Bloom The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Bill Veeck The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Jean Genet The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
    Jean Genet
    French playwright and author (1910 - 1986)
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  • Ring Lardner The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have.
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  • Joan Didion The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Bobby Rahal The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
    Bobby Rahal
    American auto racing driver (1953 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Achille Poincelot The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • David Hume The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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