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  • Carl Van Doren The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
    Carl Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1950)
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  • Carl Hiaasen The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Malcolm de Chazal The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs.
    Malcolm de Chazal
    French writer (1902 - 1981)
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  • Robert Alan The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, For kindness grows in this way.
    Robert Alan
    American singer/songwriter and comic book creator (1971 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Bobby Flay The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Anatole France The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
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    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buddha The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Alfred Russel Wallace The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Quentin Crisp The formula for achieving a successful relationship is simple: you should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Blake Farenthold The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • James Truslow Adams The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
    James Truslow Adams
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • John McCain The French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who is still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it.
    John McCain
    American politician (1936 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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