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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Source: Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum -
For awhile, I got stupid about only wanting a leading-man role, but I have no illusions. I know I'm not Brad Pitt.
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For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.
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For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off.
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For eleven months and maybe about twenty days each year, we concentrate upon the shortcomings of others, but for a few days at the turn of the New Year we look at our own. It is a good habit.
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For example, computer defends well, but for humans its is harder to defend than attack, particularly with the modern time control.
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For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.
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For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.
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For he that fights and runs away, may live to fight another day, but he, who is in battle slain, can never rise and fight again.
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For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
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For imagination sets the goal ''picture'' which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of ''will,'' as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.
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For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.
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For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like to prepare the psychology too much. I enjoy the psychology of the character but I work better from a first impression.
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For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance.
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For me, I love the flavors of Southern food, and people usually think of Southern food as heavy and fattening, but it doesn't have to be.
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For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.
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