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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
– Edward Fitzgerald
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Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.
– Gustave Flaubert
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The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
– Gustave Flaubert
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My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.
– Ernie Fletcher
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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.
– Jane Fonda
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Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
– Jean de La Fontaine
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
– Margot Fonteyn
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Life offstage has sometimes been a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.
– Margot Fonteyn
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
– Malcolm Forbes
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There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.
– Steve Forbes
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I have had a lot of adversaries in my political life, but no enemies that I can remember.
– Gerald R. Ford
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The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
– Gerald R. Ford
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
– Henry Ford
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As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
– Henry Ford
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
– Henry Ford
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Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.
– Whitey Ford
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Married life requires shared mystery even when all the facts are known.
– Richard Ford
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There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.
– Richard Ford
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My kids idea of a hard life is to live in a house with only one phone.
– George Foreman
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
– E. M. Forster
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I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
– E. M. Forster
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Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
– E. M. Forster
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
– E. M. Forster
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Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life; love empowers it. Bitterness sours life; love sweetens it. Bitterness sickens life; love heals it. Bitterness blinds life; love anoints its eyes.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analogy of every realm of human life and thought, religion not least of all. No existent theology can be a final formulation of spiritual truth.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life.
– Michel Foucault
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For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
– Gene Fowler
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
– Gene Fowler
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My father always told me, Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
– Jim Fox
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As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts so shall thy life be.
– Emmet Fox
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It is the food which you furnish to your mind that determines the whole character of your life.
– Emmet Fox
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Life is a state of consciousness.
– Emmet Fox
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The art of life is to live in the present moment, and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God Himself.
– Emmet Fox
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Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
– George Fox
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Being a gentleman is the number one priority, the chief question integral to our national life.
– Edward Fox
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Animals love. They love their being. They strive to survive, to celebrate, to propagate . So certainly something we learn from animals is love. To survive and to celebrate, propagate and to love life. To be the best we can be - the right to be here and the responsibility to be the best dog or bear or horse that they can be. Humans have the tendency to self pity that other animals don't indulge in.
– Matthew Fox
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Left to my own imagination, I could never have composed a scenario that was anywhere as interesting as my life has been: starting out as an eager altar boy, a good Boy Scout, a relatively docile Dominican brother and priest, receiving an advanced degree in spirituality, teaching bishops and many others around the world about our Western spiritual tradition, and then ending up being expelled from the Dominican order.
– Matthew Fox
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I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.
– Michael J. Fox
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I heard from thousands of PD patients and their families about their daily struggles, their frustrations and their hopes. For me, it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. This did more than just console me, it inspired me.
– Michael J. Fox
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It is ironic that in the same year we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA, some would have us ban certain forms of DNA medical research. Restricting medical research has very real human consequences, measured in loss of life and tremendous suffering for patients and their families.
– Michael J. Fox
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Nobody would choose to have a disease visited upon them. Still, Parkinson's forced me to make a fundamental life decision: adopt a siege mentality - or embark upon a life journey.
– Michael J. Fox
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I find myself doing three times the work I did when I first came into the league. But that's the case for any player in his 30s. The older you are, the more professional you have to be in taking care of your joints as well as your diet, your weight, your cardio. I've made some life-altering decisions in the areas of exercise and diet that have rejuvenated my career. I feel healthier and more athletic. I feel as young as I did in college.
– Rick Fox
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Playing at Carolina gave me a foundation for my entire life. It was a great foundation for me. I was with great players and a great coach and assistant coaches. We all developed the belief that basketball was more than just an individual game. But it also prepared me for life, as a father and a husband and a man. How to be selfless in what you do.
– Rick Fox
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
– Anatole France
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I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
– Anatole France
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
– Anatole France
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It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. From that moment I began to grow old in my own esteem -and in my esteem age is not estimable.
– Anatole France
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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
– Anatole France
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
– Anatole France
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There is nothing left to me but honor, and my life, which is saved.
– Francis I
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Crime to many is not crime but simply a way of life. If laws are inconvenient, ignore them, they don't apply to you.
– Dick Francis
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I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
– Robert Frank
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
– Felix Frankfurter
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I came into the world a Jew, and although I did not live my life entirely as a Jew, I think it is fitting that I should leave as a Jew. I don't want to turn my back on a great and noble heritage.
– Felix Frankfurter
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Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.
– Viktor E. Frankl
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A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
– Benjamin Franklin
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I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.
– Benjamin Franklin
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Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
– Benjamin Franklin
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So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last.
– Benjamin Franklin
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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.
– John Hope Franklin
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One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
– Marilyn French
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Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, their codes.
– Marilyn French
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No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
– Sigmund Freud
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The goal of all life is death.
– Sigmund Freud
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
– Sigmund Freud
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We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality.
– Sigmund Freud
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
– Betty Friedan
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A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
– Kinky Friedman
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You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing.
– Kinky Friedman
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September 11 impressed upon us that life is a precious gift. Every life has a purpose. And I think we all have a duty to devote at least a small portion of our daily lives to ensuring that neither America nor the world ever forgets September 11.
– Bill Frist
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Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
– Erich Fromm
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There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.
– Erich Fromm
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There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
– Erich Fromm
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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
– Erich Fromm
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A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
– Robert Frost
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
– Robert Frost
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
– Robert Frost
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In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
– Robert Frost
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your exuberance and bounding energy you say you're going to add to that. Then you add rhyme and meter. And your delight is in that power.
– Robert Frost
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Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
– Robert Frost
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Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.
– Robert Frost
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Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.
– Robert Frost
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The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.
– Robert Frost
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The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
– Robert Frost
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The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
– Robert Frost
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Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
– Robert Frost
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I want to look at life - at the commonplaces of existence - as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.
– Christopher Fry
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
– Northrop Frye
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Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
– Robert Fulghum
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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
– Robert Fulghum
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The examined life is no picnic.
– Robert Fulghum
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Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
– Margaret Fuller
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It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.
– Agnetha Faltskog
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