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  • Bob Mayer First novels tend to be blood-lettings, and they're focused on you, not the reader.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Andre Weil First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Aaron Hill First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
    If she will do 't, she will; and there 's an end on 't.
    But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
    Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice.
    Zara (1735)
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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  • Bruce Jackson First, those images help us understand the general and specific magnitude of disaster caused by the tsunami. The huge outpouring of aid would not have happened without those images.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Anna Lindh Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.
    Anna Lindh
    Swedish Social Democratic politician (1957 - 2003)
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  • Carly Fiorina Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • Bob McDonnell Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
    Bob McDonnell
    American politician and lawyer (1954 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Francis Quarles Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Josh Billings Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Amelia Earhart Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.
    Amelia Earhart
    American aviation pioneer and author (1897 - 1937)
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  • Marcia Wieder Focus more on your desire than on your doubt, and the dream will take care of itself. You may be surprised at how easily this happens. Your doubts are not as powerful as your desires, unless you make them so.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Harper Lee Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.
    Harper Lee
    American writer (1926 - 2016)
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  • Alexander Pope Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg Food probably has a very great influence on the condition of men. Wine exercises a more visible influence, food does it more slowly but perhaps just as surely. Who knows if a well-prepared soup was not responsible for the pneumatic pump or a poor one for a war?
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • John Cage Food, one assumes, provides nourishment; but Americans eat it fully aware that small amounts of poison have been added to improve its appearance and delay its putrefaction.
    John Cage
    American composer and music (1912 - 1992)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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