Quotes with one-third

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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Carrie Donovan Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Aaron Allston Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
    Aaron Allston
    American game designer and author (1960 - 2014)
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  • John W. Foster Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
    John W. Foster
    American diplomat and military (1836 - 1917)
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  • Blaise Pascal Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Few men are of one plain, decided color; most are mixed, shaded or blended; and vary as much from different situations, as changeable silks do from different lights.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • William Hazlitt Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Marcia Wieder Fill your life with as many moments and experiences of joy and passion as you humanly can. Start with one experience and build on it.
    Marcia Wieder
    CEO and Founder of Dream University
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  • Anne Dudley 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.
    Anne Dudley
    English composer, keyboardist and conductor (1956 - )
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  • Ace Frehley Finding a good band is Iike finding a good wife. You got to keep trying till you find the right one.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Bill Dedman Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Bill Condon First of all, just knowing people who grew up in the movie business at that time, no one had Mexican maids.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Andre Weil First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
    Andre Weil
    French mathematician
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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also know that those destroyed before were in fact the creators of values. But real barbarism begins when no one can any longer judge or know that what he does is barbaric.
    Ryszard Kapuscinski
    Polish foreign correspondent and journalist (1932 - 2007)
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  • Bill Simmons Five days after the Tsarnaev brothers blew up Boston's most sacred event, and just 24 hours after one brother was killed and the other was caught, everyone decided that it was OK to play baseball at Fenway again. The game happened on a Saturday afternoon, preceded by an emotional ceremony and many prayers.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Rohinton Mistry Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
    Rohinton Mistry
    Indian-born Canadian writer (1952 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Aleksander Kwasniewski Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups.
    Aleksander Kwasniewski
    Polish politician and journalist (1954 - )
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