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  • Benito Mussolini The fate of nations is intimately bound up with their powers of reproduction. All nations and all empires first felt decadence gnawing at them when their birth rate fell off.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Mignon McLaughlin The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Albert Einstein The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bruno Bettelheim The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
    Bruno Bettelheim
    Austrian-born psychologist, scholar and author (1903 - 1990)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Nikola Tesla The feeling is constantly growing on me that I had been the first to hear the greeting of one planet to another.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Billy Campbell The feeling of being at sea has put me in touch with who I am to a greater degree than if I had been on land all these years. So, in a roundabout way, I imagine it does inform my acting.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Achille Poincelot The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
    Achille Poincelot
    French aphorism writer
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  • David Hume The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian
    An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Armistead Maupin The film itself involves a New York City radio storyteller, Gabriel Noone, who strikes up a friendship with one of his fans, an abused 14-year-old teenager who is suffering from AIDS, who does not have much longer to live.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Bill Gates The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree.
    Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
    Mother Courage and Her Children
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ben Affleck The first 'Star Wars' movie had come out in 1977 and had become this huge phenomenon with all the toys and everything - it just kind of swept America. But internationally, it was also a big deal.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Pearl Bailey The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carine Roitfeld The first Chanel jacket that I saw - that I knew was Chanel - was on TV. It was on Mrs. Kennedy - the pink one.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
    Fisherman's Luck (1899) , ch. 5
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère The first day one is a guest, the second a burden, and the third a pest.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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