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Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
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Fantasy is often closer to reality than what most people accept as reality.
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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.
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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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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself thinking once or twice a week.
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Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.
Permaculture: A Designers Manual chapter 9.1 -
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
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Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ''I believe,'' three times.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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For a man there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and women. It is often difficult to say which is the worst.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
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For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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For in the fatness of these pursy times I virtue itself of vice must pardon beg.
Hamlet 3, 4 -
For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
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For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown.
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Forgive you? - Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.
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