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For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.
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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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For me, life is about being positive and hopeful, choosing to be joyful, choosing to be encouraging, choosing to be empowering.
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For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the house one was brought up in.
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For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
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For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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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 of my life, one of the persons most baffled by my own work was myself.
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For much of my life there was no place where the things I wanted to investigate were of interest to anyone.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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For over two billion years, through the apparent fancy of her endless differentiations and metamorphosis the Cell, as regards its basic physiological mechanisms, has remained one and the same. It is life itself, and our true and distant ancestor.
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For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
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For that's what a woman, a mother wants to teach her children to take an interest in life. She knows it's safer for them to be interested in other people's happiness than to believe in their own.
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For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.
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For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.
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