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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.
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Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.
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For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.
The Prospect for Humanity, Saturday Review, 29 August 1964Richard Buckminster Fuller
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
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For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
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For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know.
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For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.
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For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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For most men, and most circumstances, pleasure - tangible material prosperity in this world - is the safest test of virtue. Progress has ever been through the pleasures rather than through the extreme sharp virtues, and the most virtuous have leaned to excess rather than to asceticism.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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For one man is my world of all the men this wide world holds; O love, my world is you.
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For the first time in American history, men in authority are talking about an 'emergency' without a foreseeable end,...Such men as these are crackpot realists: in the name of realism they have constructed a paranoid reality all their own.
The Power Elite (1956) -
For the task assigned them
Men aren't smart enough or sly
Any rogue can blind them
With a clever lie.The Threepenny Opera Polly Peachum, in The Song of the Futility of All -
For then only will you be strong, when you cherish the laws, and when the revolutionary attempts of lawless men shall have ceased.
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For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
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For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.
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