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Force is not a remedy.
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Force works on servile natures, not the free.
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Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.
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Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
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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.
As quoted in Garlic and Oil : Food and Politics in Italy -
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
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Fortune gives too much to many, enough to none.
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Fortune has something of the nature of a woman. If she is too intensely wooed, she commonly goes the further away.
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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 makes a fool of those she favors too much.
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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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Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to the very clear realization that international anarchy must be abandoned if civilization was to survive.
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Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.
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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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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.
The Worlds Last Night (1952)
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