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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop.

  John Webster
  English dramatist (1580 - 1634)
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• Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

  Douglas Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• Fractal geometry is not just a chapter of mathematics, but one that helps Everyman to see the same world differently.

  The Fractal Geometry of Nature

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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• France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.

  Alfred de Vigny
  French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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• Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

  Janis Joplin
  American singerer (1943 - 1970)
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• Freedom is the right to one's dignity as a man.

  Archibald MacLeish
  American poet (1892 - 1982)
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• Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.

  The New Yorker May 14, 1960

  A. J. Liebling
  American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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• Freight mobility and movement, while not a sexy policy issue, is a highly important one. Capacity constraints and congestion on our nation's freight rail system create many problems.

  Bill Lipinski
  American politician (1937 - )
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• Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

  Eustace Budgell
   
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• Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

  Augustine Birrell
  British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

  George Santayana
  Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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• Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

  C. S. Lewis
  Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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• Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

  Kenneth Branagh
   
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• Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon
  English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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• Friendship with our self is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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• Friendship with ourself is all-important, because without it one cannot he friends with anyone else in the world.

  E. Roosevelt
   
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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes
  American judge and politician (1882 - 1972)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• all-important
• self-interest
• differently
• constraints
• inclination
• friendship

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