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Everybody I know who is funny, it's in them. You can teach timing, or some people are able to tell a joke, though I don't like to tell jokes. But I think you have to be born with a sense of humor and a sense of timing.
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Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.
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Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.
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Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.
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Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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False opinions are like false money, struck first of all by guilty men and thereafter circulated by honest people who perpetuate the crime without knowing what they are doing.
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Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.
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Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.
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Families are the tie that reminds us of yesterday, provide strength and support today, and give us hope for tomorrow. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, or well-managed, can provide what our families provide.
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Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.
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Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.
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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
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Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A world of optimism and hope. A ''you can do it'' when things are tough.
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Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.
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Firmness in enduring and exertion is a character I always wish to possess. I have always despised the whining yelp of complaint and cowardly resolve.
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Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
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Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
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