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The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.
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The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not; that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.
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The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.
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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency, the belief that the here and now is all there is.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.
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The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
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The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.
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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.
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The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981) -
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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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.''
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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.
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The feeling of gratitude has all the ardor of a passion in noble hearts.
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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 -
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
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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 -
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.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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