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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
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Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
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Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance.
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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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Fill all the glasses there, for why
Should every creature drink but I?
Why, man of morals, tell me why?Source: From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). -
Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.
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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
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First of all the name, and the color purple, I think those two things distinguish the Vikings as much as anything. You go anywhere in the country and say 'Vikings,' they know exactly where you are. You say 'Cardinals,' well, Cardinals who? There are a dozen Cardinals teams in the country in professional and amateur sports.
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First of all, Arafat is wrong. Jerusalem is Israel's capital, will never be divided, and will remain the capital of the State of Israel, the capital of the Jewish people, for ever and ever.
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First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.
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First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
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First of all, I didn't suggest that we should simply get rid of all prisons.
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First of all, I think the Saudis are deeply concerned about the collapse of negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians and the resumption of conflict.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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First of all, I'm a Midwesterner, being from Kansas, and Chicago is basically a big Midwestern cow town. It was built from the stockyards, and everyone is very friendly, and it's at the edge of the tallgrass prairie. There's just a good feel to it.
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First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
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