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Farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters - where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives, as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.
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Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.
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Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people.
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Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.
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Fear of becoming a has been keeps some people from becoming anything.
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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.
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
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Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.
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Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies.
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Few people have the virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.
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Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.
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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 basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
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