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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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Except the American woman, nothing interests the eye of American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of aesthetic appreciation.
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Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
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Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
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Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
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Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.
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Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.
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Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
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Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.
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Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
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Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man. It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe.
Source: Jeet Kune Do (1997) Part 6 -
Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
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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.
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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
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Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
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