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  • Ouida Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Edgar W. Howe Farmers only worry during the growing season, but towns people worry all the time.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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  • Leon Trotsky Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
    Leon Trotsky
    Russian revolutionary and writer (1879 - 1940)
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  • John Locke Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carolina Herrera Fashion is a dream. It's difficult, and there are many aspects of fashion that are very difficult, but if you love it like I do, because I really have a passion, now, for fashion, it's not easy, but nothing is easy in life.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Carolina Herrera Fashion is not an investment. If you wear a dress and don't get many compliments, you won't wear it again. It's not like buying bonds.
    Carolina Herrera
    Venezuelan fashion designer (1939 - )
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  • Yves Saint-Laurent Fashions fade, but style is eternal.
    Yves Saint-Laurent
    French fashion designer (1936 - 2008)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bill Gross Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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