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  • Socrates False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Jean Rostand Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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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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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Fame is something that must be won. Honor is something that must not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William Hazlitt Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marilyn Monroe Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experienced, but that's not where I live.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Thomas Carlyle 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.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Reinhold Niebuhr Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can be sustained by a spirit of love which goes beyond justice.
    Reinhold Niebuhr
    American theologist, historian (1892 - 1971)
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  • Margaret Drabble Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Brandon Sanderson Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other people are doing - and say, 'How can I add to this rather than just recycle it? How can I stand on Tolkien's shoulders rather than stand tied to his kneecaps?'
    Brandon Sanderson
    American author of epic fantasy and science fiction (1975 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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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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  • Carl Gustav Jung Far from being a material world, this is a psychic world, which allows us to make only indirect and hypothetical inferences about the real nature of matter. The psychic, alone has immediate reality, and this includes all forms of the psychic, even the 'unreal' ideas and thoughts which refer to nothing 'external'. We may call them 'imagination' or 'delusion,' but that does not detract in any way from their effectiveness...
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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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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  • Gloria Steinem Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup Far too often, software engineering is neither engineering nor about software. Bjarne Stroustrup's FAQ: Did you really say that?. Retrieved on 2011-04-11.
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Aneurin Bevan Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.
    Aneurin Bevan
    British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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