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  • Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Achille Poincelot The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • David Hume The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
    Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Source: Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Aldous Huxley The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Robert Collier The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gloria Steinem The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bill Buford The first sign that I'd been unknowingly affected by cooking shows occurred on a Sunday morning when I realized I was talking to myself. I'd been making toast. 'First, we cut our bread,' I whispered. 'Do you know why?' I stopped what I was doing and looked up. 'Let me tell you why.'
    Bill Buford
    American author and journalist
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  • Richard Cecil The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Bobby Scott The first year of the Bush administration we used up all of the surplus and ended up just with the Social Security and Medicare surplus, and each year worse than the year before.
    Bobby Scott
    American politician (1947 - )
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  • Bill Shuster The flag represents all the values and the liberties Americans have and enjoy everyday.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson The folly of all follies is to be love sick for a shadow.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Baz Luhrmann The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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