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  • Francis Quarles Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot defeat; it is no less folly to fear what is impossible to be avoided than to be secure when there is a possibility to be deprived.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Dale Carnegie Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
    Dale Carnegie
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Adam Sandler Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
    Adam Sandler
    American actor, comedian, and filmmaker (1966 - )
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  • Camille Paglia Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal control of the sexual realm. The specter of the femme fatale stalks all of men's relationships with women.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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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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  • Caitlin Moran Feminism means something - legislation, cultural change - but 'Girl Power' meant nothing more than being friends with your friends.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Percy Ross Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
    Percy Ross
    American businessman (1916 - 2001)
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  • Dhammapada Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Herbert J. Muller Few have heard of Fra Luca Parioli, the inventor of double entry bookkeeping; but he has probably had much more influence on human life than has Dante or Michelangelo.
    Herbert J. Muller
    American historian and author (1905 - 1980)
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  • Anthony Powell Few persons who have ever sat for a portrait can have felt anything but inferior while the process is going on.
    Anthony Powell
    English novelist (1905 - 2000)
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  • Virginia Woolf Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Budd Schulberg Fights can be dumped in a dozen ways. Sometimes everybody but the fighter knows. Sometimes only the fighter knows.
    Budd Schulberg
    American screenwriter, television producer and novelist (1914 - 2009)
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  • Andy Rooney Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Charles H. Grosvenor Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.
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  • Abraham Cowley Fill all the glasses there, for why
    Should every creature drink but I?
    Why, man of morals, tell me why?
    From Anacreon, ii. Drinking; reported in Bartletts Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Robert Bresson Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
    Robert Bresson
    French film director (1901 - 1999)
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  • Carl Sagan Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us - and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
    Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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