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  • Anton Chekhov A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bernard Williams A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Kurt Cobain A friend is nothing but a known enemy.
    Kurt Cobain
    American singer, songwriter, and musician (1967 - 1994)
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  • Fr. Jerome Cummings A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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  • Carson Daly A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing.
    Carson Daly
    American television host, radio personality and producer (1973 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Seneca A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Betty Friedan A girl should not expect special privileges because of her sex but neither should she 'adjust' to prejudice and discrimination.
    The Feminine Mystique Ch. 1 The Problem That Has No Name
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Alexander Pope A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Mason Brown A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Bob Beauprez A good day for Barack Obama is anytime the dominant topic of discussion is anything but the economy.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Frank Crane A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
    Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • Arthur Baer A good neighbor is a fellow who smiles at you over the back fence, but doesn't climb over it.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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