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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
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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.
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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.
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
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The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.
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The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once.
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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.
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The former conviction that these two kingdoms were wholly different in structure, in function, and in kind of life, was not seriously disturbed by the difficulties which the naturalist encountered when he undertook to define them.
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The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose.
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The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.
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The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.
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The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
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The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel, but do not dull thy palm with entertainment of each new-hatched unfledged comrade.
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The fun part about doing voiceovers and all that stuff is that you're not yourself; you're some other looking thing and sounding thing and whatever else.
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The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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