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  • John Updike Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson Extended empires are like expanded gold, exchanging solid strength for feeble splendor.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • H. Ross Perot Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Francis Beaumont Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Herman Melville Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Richard Burton False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.
    Richard Burton
    Welsh actor (1925 - 1984)
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  • Francis Bacon Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Davy Crockett Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!
    Davy Crockett
    American folk hero, soldier, and politician (1786 - 1836)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Bruce Dickinson Fans want to see people who can play; they respect certain values like professionalism, and they don't want to be treated like shit. They pay good money and they look forward to seeing some good music being played by decent musicians, who really put their soul into it.
    Source: Tobler, John (1992)
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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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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  • Paul De Man Fashion is like the ashes left behind by the uniquely shaped flames of the fire, the trace alone revealing that a fire actually took place.
    Paul De Man
    In België geboren American literair criticus (1919 - 1983)
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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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  • Elizabeth Bowen Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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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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  • Lao-Tzu Favor and disgrace are like fear. Favor is in a higher place, and disgrace in a lower place. When you win them you are like being in fear, and when you lose them you are also like being in fear. So favor and disgrace are like fear.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • E. M. Cioran Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent - unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it - we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Samuel Johnson Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Arianna Huffington Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Federal regulations forbid delaying inspections for fracture-critical bridges like the fallen Minneapolis bridge - the kind with a lack of redundancy in design, so that a single failure in a load-bearing part can cause the entire bridge to collapse.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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