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  • Mark Twain Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Brooke Burke Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Voltaire Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
    The Fractal Geometry of Nature
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Adam Michnik France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
    Adam Michnik
    Polish historian, essayist and dissident (1946 - )
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  • Charles de Gaulle France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Billy Wilder France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Helen Rowland France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Frankly speaking, I don't know much about rock music. But I enjoyed some when I was in college or high school. But I stopped listening after Elvis Presley!
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Joseph Heller Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • C. S. Lewis Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
    The Worlds Last Night (1952)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Mario Puzo Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the Family.
    The Godfather
    Mario Puzo
    American author, screenwriter and journalist (1920 - 1999)
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  • Arthur C. Brooks Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
    Arthur C. Brooks
    American social scientist and musician (1964 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
    On Import Duties (25-04-1843)
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Edmund Burke Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Herbert Hoover Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Cal Thomas Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Ban Ki-moon Freedom is a timeless value. The United Nations Charter calls for encouraging respect for fundamental freedoms. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights mentions freedom more than twenty times. All countries have committed to protecting individual freedoms on paper - but in practice, too many break their pledge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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