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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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  • Erica Jong Fame means millions of people have the wrong idea of who you are.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • George Santayana Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • George Santayana Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Fantasy/science-fiction stories have been around almost as long as each genre, but every hybrid now lives in the shadow of 'Star Wars.'
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti 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.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • T. Boone Pickens Far too many executives have become more concerned with the ''four P's'' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
    T. Boone Pickens
    American business magnate and financier (1928 - )
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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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  • Oscar Wilde Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Allan Bloom Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Les Brown Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bill Dedman Federal agencies that own bridges have some of the worst records for on-time inspections. Nearly 3,000 bridges owned by U.S. government agencies went more than two years between checkups.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Dale Carnegie Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Feelings aroused by the touch of someone's hand, the sound of music, the smell of a flower, a beautiful sunset, a work of art, love, laughter, hope and faith - all work on both the unconscious and the conscious aspects of the self, and they have physiological consequences as well.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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