Quotes 2621 till 2640 of 12035.
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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee
And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. -
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.
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Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!
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Fortunately the Italian people has not yet accustomed itself to eat many times a day, and possessing a modest level of living, it feels deficiency and suffering less.
Source: As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy -
Fortunately, I get asked to play - regardless of how big or small they are - some really interesting people who are part of great stories. So, as an actor, there's really nothing better.
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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
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Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.
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Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
Source: The Fractal Geometry of Nature -
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once!
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Frantic administration of panaceas to the world is certainly discouraged by the reflection that this present might be the world's last night; sober work for the future, within the limits of ordinary morality and prudence, is not.
Source: The Worlds Last Night (1952) -
Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction.
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Free trade is not a principle; it is an expedient.
Source: On Import Duties (25-04-1843) -
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.
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Freedom is baffling:
men having it often
know not they have it
till it is gone and
they no longer have it.
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