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“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” -Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber was born in 1814. He was an English hymn writer and theologian. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, and became a member of its priesthood. His is known for the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” (1849). Frederick William Faber passed on in 1863.
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“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.” -Jean Henri Fabre
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“Creativity is a state of mind, and it is most widely expressed by very young children, because their confrontation with their environment is constantly made up of original discoveries and inventions. In time, through social pressures to conform and the repetition of experience, most of them lose their sense of wonder and become less and less creative, trapped in a complete mold not of their own making.” -Don Fabun
“Out of the dreaming past, with its legends of steaming seas and gleaming glaciers, mountains that moved and suns that glared, emerges this creature, Man - the latest phase in a continuing process that stretches back to the beginning of time. His is the heritage of all that has lived; he still carries the vestiges of snout and fangs and claws of species long since vanished; he is the ancestor of all that is yet to come. Do not regard him lightly - he is you.” -Don Fabun
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“Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known when disgrace is that the thing should exist.” -William Falconer
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“Don’t tell me about your effort. Show me your results.” -Tim Fargo
“Enjoy life by limiting your emotional baggage to a small carry-on.” -Tim Fargo
“Forget your weaknesses, increase your strengths, and be the most awesome you that you can be.” -Tim Fargo
“If you think you’ll laugh about it someday, go ahead and start today.” -Tim Fargo
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“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” -William Faulkner
“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” -William Faulkner: speech at the Nobel Prize Banquet after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (10 December 1950)
William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner was born in 1897. He was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet. William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner passed on at 64 years of age on 6 July 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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“One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.” -James E. Faust
“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences . . . Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.” -James E. Faust: ‘Will I Be Happy,’ published in “Ensign” (May 1987) magazine, page 80
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“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived (oh, not deprived but rather underprivileged). Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” -Jules Feiffer
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” -Bruce Feirstein
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don’t want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.” -Federico Fellini
“It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive.” -Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini was born in 1920. He was an Italian screenwriter, film director, and film maker. He is known for his film “8½” (1963). Federico Fellini passed on in 1993.
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“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.” -Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham was born in 1602. He was an English essayist. Owen Feltham passed on in 1668.
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“We can do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.” -Francois Fenelon
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Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
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“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” -Tim Ferriss
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“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” -Tina Fey
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“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things.” -Richard Feynman
“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.’” -Richard Feynman
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” -Richard Feynman
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school . . . It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don’t understand it. You see my physics students don’t understand it . . . That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.” -Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was born in 1918. He was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. Richard Phillips Feynman passed on in 1988.
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“Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.” -Joanna Field
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“When I fill my mind with positive thoughts my life changes for the better.” -Lynda Field
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“Good enough never is.” -Debbi Fields
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.” -Debbie Fields
Debbie Fields was born in 1956. She is the founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
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“The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.” -J. T. Fields
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“The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.” -Guy Finley
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“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.” -John Finley
“We are making stupendous effort to extend the physical and economic life of the many. But of what high consequence is that extension unless the activity of the mind is also extended unless we strive ever to live better rather than simply to make a better living?” -John H. Finley
John H. Finley is a doctor.
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“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” -Doug Firebaugh
“Goals are simply an image in your mind that need to be crystallized on paper by your hand . . . and embraced with your heart . . .” -Doug Firebaugh
“The future looks bright . . . for those who choose to shine . . . and become a star.” -Doug Firebaugh
Doug Firebaugh was born on 9 June 1968 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States of America.
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“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“Success is the sum of details.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.” -Harvey S. Firestone
Harvey Samuel Firestone was born in 1868. He was an American industrialist, and is known as the founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Harvey Samuel Firestone passed on in 1938.
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“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.” -John Fischer
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“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks’ vacation we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.” -Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on 25 April 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, United States of America. She became an American jazz singer. Ella Jane Fitzgerald passed on at 79 years of age on 15 June 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America.
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“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, also known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He was married to Zelda Sayre in 1920. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a screenwriter. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald passed on at 44 years of age on 21 December 1940 in Hollywood, California, United States of America.
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“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.” -Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was born as Zelda Sayre in 1900. Zelda Fitzgerald passed on in 1948.
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“Being a little weird is just a natural side effect of being awesome.” -Sue Fitzmaurice
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“Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.” -Alberta Flanders
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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
Gustave Flaubert was born on 12 December 1821 in Rouen, France. He was a French novelist. Gustave Flaubert passed on at 58 years of age on 8 May 1880 in Croisset, France.
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“It takes courage to live, courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.” -Jerome P. Fleishman
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“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” -Peggy Fleming
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“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
“Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
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“A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.” -Tom Flores
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“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.” -Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch was born on 2 October 1851 in Tarbes, France. He was a military leader during World War 1. Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch passed on at 77 years of age on 20 March 1929 in Paris, France.
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“It’s never too late, never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” -Jane Fonda
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“By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” -Malcolm Forbes
“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born on 19 August 1919. He became the publisher of “Forbes” magazine, which was founded by his father, Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ ‘B. C.’ Forbes (1880 - 1954). Later, the magazine was run by Malcolm’s son, Steve Forbes. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes passed on at 70 years of age on 24 February 1990.
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“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.” -Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was born in 1942. He became an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as fictional characters Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.
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“I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” -George Foreman
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“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.” -E. M. Forster: “Howards End” (1910)
Edward Morgan Forster, also known as E. M. Forster, was born on 1 January 1879 in London, England. He was an English novelist, short story writer, essayists, and librettist. His novel “A Room with a View” (1908) is his most optimistic work, while “A Passage to India” brought him his greatest success. Edward Morgan Forster passed on at 91 years of age on 7 June 1970 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
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“Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick: “Living Under Tension”
Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on 24 May 1878 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America. He became a minister in the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches and a writer. Harry Emerson Fosdick passed on at 91 years of age on 5 October 1969 in Bronxville, New York, United States of America.
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“If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful person in the world.” -Emmet Fox
Emmett Fox was born in 1886. He became a scientist, a philosopher, and a writer. Emmett Fox passed on in 1951.
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“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” -Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox is a pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox, who was born on 9 June 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an American actor, writer, and producer.
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“Determination that just won’t quit - that’s what it takes.” -A. J. Foyt
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“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” -Anatole France
Anatole France is a pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, who was born on 16 April 1844 in Paris, France. He became a journalist, a novelist, a poet, and a critic. Jacques Anatole François Thibault passed on at 80 years of age on 12 October 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France.
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales was born in 1567. He was a French Catholic bishop of Geneva. Francis de Sales passed on in 1622.
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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” -Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi was born as Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone on 26 September 1181 in Assisi, Umbria. He was an Italian Catholic monk, friar, and preacher. He founded the Franciscan Order of Priests, the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. Francis of Assisi passed on at 45 years of age on 3 October 1226 in Assisi, Italy. He was made a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
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“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.” -Felix Frankfurter
“There can be no security where there is fear.” -Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was born in 1882. Felix Frankfurter passed on in 1965.
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” -Viktor Frankl
“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl was born in 1905. He was a Holocaust survivor, a writer, a neurologist, and a psychiatrist. Viktor Emil Frankl passed on in 1997.
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“Life is not meant to be easy.” -Malcolm Fraser
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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” -Grant Frazier
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“My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.” -Frederick II
Frederick II, also known as Frederick the Great, was born in 1712. He was a king of Prussia (1740 - 1786). Frederick II passed on in 1786.
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“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” -Arthur Freed
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain;
What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.
-Arthur Freed
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“Only those who dare, truly live.” -Ruth Freedman
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A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Though a by-product of freedom, greater equality is not an accident. A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s disadvantaged to become tomorrow’s privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
-Milton Friedman
“Our society is what we make it. We can shape our institutions. Physical and human characteristics limit the alternatives available to us. But none prevents us, if we will, from building a society that relies primarily on voluntary cooperation to organize both economic and other activity, a society that preserves and expands human freedom, that keeps government in its place, keeping it our servant and not letting it become our master.” -Milton Friedman
“The long-range solution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” -Milton Friedman: as quoted in “US News & World Report” (March 1977)
Milton Friedman was born on 31 July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He became an economist. Milton Friedman passed on in 2006.
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“If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know.” -Patricia Fripp
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“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” -Erich Fromm
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Erich Fromm
“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
Erich Seligmann Fromm was born on 23 March 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a philosopher, a social psychologist, and a psychoanalyst. Erich Seligmann Fromm passed on at 79 years of age on 18 March 1980 in Muralto, Switzerland.
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“Don’t aim for success. If you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost
David Paradine Frost was born on 7 April 1939 in Tenterden, Kent, England. He became a television host, a media personality, a journalist, a comedian, and a writer. He is known as the host of the satirical television program “That Was the Week That Was” starting in 1962. David Paradine Frost passed on at 74 years of age on 31 August 2013 aboard the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean Sea.
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.” -James Froude
James Anthony Froude was born in 1818. James Anthony Froude passed on in 1894.
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A man convinced against his will,
stands opposed ever still.
A man convinced he is right,
gives the effort twice the fight.
-Jeffrey Fry
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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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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” -Margaret Fuller
“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!” -Margaret Fuller: “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843” (1844)
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” -Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller Ossoli, also known simply as Margaret Fuller was born on 23 May 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a journalist, an editor, and a critic. Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller Ossoli passed on at 40 years of age on 19 July 1850 in the sinking of the oceangoing ship ‘Elizabeth’ off the coast of Fire Island, New York, United States of America.
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“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this Earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller was born in 1895. He was an American architect, a designer, an inventor, a philosopher, a futurist, a writer of more than 30 books, and a poet. He popularized the geodesic dome. The carbon molecules known as ‘fullerenes’ were named by scientists in his honor for their resemblance to geodesic spheres. Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller passed on in 1983.
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“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.” -Thomas Fuller
“My dame feeds her hens with mere thanks and they laid no eggs.” -Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was born on 19 June 1608 in Northamptonshire, England. He became a preacher, a historian, and a writer. Thomas Fuller passed on at about 53 years of age on 16 August 1661 in Covent Garden, England.
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“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
“It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2916
Thomas Fuller was born on 24 June 1654 in Rosehill, Sussex, England. He became a physician, a preacher, and an adage collector. Thomas Fuller passed on at 80 years of age on 17 September 1734.
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“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.” -Frederick William Faber
Frederick William Faber was born in 1814. He was an English hymn writer and theologian. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, and became a member of its priesthood. His is known for the hymn “Faith of Our Fathers” (1849). Frederick William Faber passed on in 1863.
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“Seek those who find your road agreeable, your personality and mind stimulating, your philosophy acceptable, and your experience helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.” -Jean Henri Fabre
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“Creativity is a state of mind, and it is most widely expressed by very young children, because their confrontation with their environment is constantly made up of original discoveries and inventions. In time, through social pressures to conform and the repetition of experience, most of them lose their sense of wonder and become less and less creative, trapped in a complete mold not of their own making.” -Don Fabun
“Out of the dreaming past, with its legends of steaming seas and gleaming glaciers, mountains that moved and suns that glared, emerges this creature, Man - the latest phase in a continuing process that stretches back to the beginning of time. His is the heritage of all that has lived; he still carries the vestiges of snout and fangs and claws of species long since vanished; he is the ancestor of all that is yet to come. Do not regard him lightly - he is you.” -Don Fabun
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“Do not talk about disgrace from a thing being known when disgrace is that the thing should exist.” -William Falconer
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“Don’t tell me about your effort. Show me your results.” -Tim Fargo
“Enjoy life by limiting your emotional baggage to a small carry-on.” -Tim Fargo
“Forget your weaknesses, increase your strengths, and be the most awesome you that you can be.” -Tim Fargo
“If you think you’ll laugh about it someday, go ahead and start today.” -Tim Fargo
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“Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.” -William Faulkner
“I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.” -William Faulkner: speech at the Nobel Prize Banquet after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (10 December 1950)
William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner was born in 1897. He was an American short story writer, essayist, novelist, playwright, and poet. William Cuthbert ‘Will’ Faulkner passed on at 64 years of age on 6 July 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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“One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.” -James E. Faust
“Private choices are not private; they all have public consequences . . . Our society is the sum total of what millions of individuals do in their private lives.” -James E. Faust: ‘Will I Be Happy,’ published in “Ensign” (May 1987) magazine, page 80
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“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. Then they told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy. I was deprived (oh, not deprived but rather underprivileged). Then they told me that underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” -Jules Feiffer
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“The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success.” -Bruce Feirstein
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“I claim the right to contradict myself. I don’t want to deprive myself of the right to talk nonsense, and I ask humbly to be allowed to be wrong sometimes.” -Federico Fellini
“It is only when doing my work that I feel truly alive.” -Federico Fellini
Federico Fellini was born in 1920. He was an Italian screenwriter, film director, and film maker. He is known for his film “8½” (1963). Federico Fellini passed on in 1993.
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“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.” -Owen Feltham
Owen Feltham was born in 1602. He was an English essayist. Owen Feltham passed on in 1668.
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“We can do more for other men by correcting our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.” -Francois Fenelon
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Your body cannot heal without play.
Your mind cannot heal without laughter.
Your soul cannot heal without joy.
-Catherine Rippenger Fenwick
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“Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.” -Tim Ferriss
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“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards.” -Tina Fey
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“I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things.” -Richard Feynman
“The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality ‘ought to be.’” -Richard Feynman
“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” -Richard Feynman
“What I am going to tell you about is what we teach our physics students in the third or fourth year of graduate school . . . It is my task to convince you not to turn away because you don’t understand it. You see my physics students don’t understand it . . . That is because I don’t understand it. Nobody does.” -Richard Feynman
Richard Phillips Feynman was born in 1918. He was an American theoretical physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics, the theory of quantum electrodynamics, and the physics of the superfluidity of supercooled liquid helium, as well as in particle physics. He developed a widely used pictorial representation scheme for the mathematical expressions governing the behavior of subatomic particles, which later became known as Feynman diagrams. Richard Phillips Feynman passed on in 1988.
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“Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.” -Joanna Field
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“When I fill my mind with positive thoughts my life changes for the better.” -Lynda Field
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“Good enough never is.” -Debbi Fields
“The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try.” -Debbie Fields
Debbie Fields was born in 1956. She is the founder of Mrs. Fields Cookies.
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“The man who tells me an indelicate story does me an injury.” -J. T. Fields
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“The limit of your present understanding is not the limit of your possibilities.” -Guy Finley
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“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.” -John Finley
“We are making stupendous effort to extend the physical and economic life of the many. But of what high consequence is that extension unless the activity of the mind is also extended unless we strive ever to live better rather than simply to make a better living?” -John H. Finley
John H. Finley is a doctor.
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“Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.” -Doug Firebaugh
“Goals are simply an image in your mind that need to be crystallized on paper by your hand . . . and embraced with your heart . . .” -Doug Firebaugh
“The future looks bright . . . for those who choose to shine . . . and become a star.” -Doug Firebaugh
Doug Firebaugh was born on 9 June 1968 in Birmingham, Michigan, United States of America.
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“Capital isn’t so important in business. Experience isn’t so important. You can get both these things. What is important is ideas. If you have ideas, you have the main asset you need, and there isn’t any limit to what you can do with your business and your life.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“It is only as we develop others that we permanently succeed.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“Our company is built on people - those who work for us, and those we do business with.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“Success is the sum of details.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership.” -Harvey S. Firestone
“You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself.” -Harvey S. Firestone
Harvey Samuel Firestone was born in 1868. He was an American industrialist, and is known as the founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company. Harvey Samuel Firestone passed on in 1938.
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“The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different - to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind, and spirit he or she possesses.” -John Fischer
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“If we would only give just once the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with two weeks’ vacation we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.” -Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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“It isn’t where you came from; it’s where you’re going that counts.” -Ella Fitzgerald
“Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” -Ella Fitzgerald
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.” -Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on 25 April 1917 in Newport News, Virginia, United States of America. She became an American jazz singer. Ella Jane Fitzgerald passed on at 79 years of age on 15 June 1996 in Beverly Hills, California, United States of America.
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“Everyone suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, also known as F. Scott Fitzgerald, was born on 24 September 1896 in Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States of America. He was married to Zelda Sayre in 1920. He became a novelist, a short story writer, and a screenwriter. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald passed on at 44 years of age on 21 December 1940 in Hollywood, California, United States of America.
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“We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.” -Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
Zelda Fitzgerald was born as Zelda Sayre in 1900. Zelda Fitzgerald passed on in 1948.
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“Being a little weird is just a natural side effect of being awesome.” -Sue Fitzmaurice
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“Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.” -Alberta Flanders
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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
Gustave Flaubert was born on 12 December 1821 in Rouen, France. He was a French novelist. Gustave Flaubert passed on at 58 years of age on 8 May 1880 in Croisset, France.
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“It takes courage to live, courage and strength and hope and humor. And courage and strength and hope and humor have to be bought and paid for with pain and work and prayers and tears.” -Jerome P. Fleishman
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“The ultimate goal should be doing your best and enjoying it.” -Peggy Fleming
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“Although the vast majority of walkers never even think of using a walking staff, I unhesitatingly include it among the foundations of the house that travels on my back.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
“Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains.” -Colin Fletcher: “The Complete Walker III”
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“A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.” -Tom Flores
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“A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.” -Ferdinand Foch
Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch was born on 2 October 1851 in Tarbes, France. He was a military leader during World War 1. Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch passed on at 77 years of age on 20 March 1929 in Paris, France.
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“It’s never too late, never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.” -Jane Fonda
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“By the time we’ve made it, we’ve had it.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“It’s always worthwhile to make others aware of their worth.” -Malcolm Forbes
“People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” -Malcolm S. Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes was born on 19 August 1919. He became the publisher of “Forbes” magazine, which was founded by his father, Robert Charles ‘Bertie’ ‘B. C.’ Forbes (1880 - 1954). Later, the magazine was run by Malcolm’s son, Steve Forbes. Malcolm Stevenson Forbes passed on at 70 years of age on 24 February 1990.
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“All I would tell people is to hold onto what was individual about themselves, not to allow their ambition for success to cause them to try to imitate the success of others. You’ve got to find it on your own terms.” -Harrison Ford
Harrison Ford was born in 1942. He became an American actor and film producer. He is known for his roles as fictional characters Han Solo in the original Star Wars epic space opera trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.
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“I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what.” -George Foreman
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“Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever, and not this outer life of telegrams and anger.” -E. M. Forster: “Howards End” (1910)
Edward Morgan Forster, also known as E. M. Forster, was born on 1 January 1879 in London, England. He was an English novelist, short story writer, essayists, and librettist. His novel “A Room with a View” (1908) is his most optimistic work, while “A Passage to India” brought him his greatest success. Edward Morgan Forster passed on at 91 years of age on 7 June 1970 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England.
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“Life is a library owned by an author. It has a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
“No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick: “Living Under Tension”
Harry Emerson Fosdick was born on 24 May 1878 in Buffalo, New York, United States of America. He became a minister in the Presbyterian and Baptist Churches and a writer. Harry Emerson Fosdick passed on at 91 years of age on 5 October 1969 in Bronxville, New York, United States of America.
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“If you could only love enough, you would be the most powerful person in the world.” -Emmet Fox
Emmett Fox was born in 1886. He became a scientist, a philosopher, and a writer. Emmett Fox passed on in 1951.
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“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.” -Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox is a pseudonym of Michael Andrew Fox, who was born on 9 June 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is an American actor, writer, and producer.
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“Determination that just won’t quit - that’s what it takes.” -A. J. Foyt
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“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” -Anatole France
“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.” -Anatole France
Anatole France is a pseudonym of Jacques Anatole François Thibault, who was born on 16 April 1844 in Paris, France. He became a journalist, a novelist, a poet, and a critic. Jacques Anatole François Thibault passed on at 80 years of age on 12 October 1924 in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, France.
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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.” -Francis de Sales
Francis de Sales was born in 1567. He was a French Catholic bishop of Geneva. Francis de Sales passed on in 1622.
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“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” -Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi was born as Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone on 26 September 1181 in Assisi, Umbria. He was an Italian Catholic monk, friar, and preacher. He founded the Franciscan Order of Priests, the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, and the Third Order of Saint Francis. Francis of Assisi passed on at 45 years of age on 3 October 1226 in Assisi, Italy. He was made a Saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
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“It simply is not true that war never settles anything.” -Felix Frankfurter
“There can be no security where there is fear.” -Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter was born in 1882. Felix Frankfurter passed on in 1965.
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“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” -Viktor Frankl
“What is to give light must endure burning.” -Viktor Frankl
Viktor Emil Frankl was born in 1905. He was a Holocaust survivor, a writer, a neurologist, and a psychiatrist. Viktor Emil Frankl passed on in 1997.
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“Life is not meant to be easy.” -Malcolm Fraser
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“Life is full of obstacle illusions.” -Grant Frazier
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“My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.” -Frederick II
Frederick II, also known as Frederick the Great, was born in 1712. He was a king of Prussia (1740 - 1786). Frederick II passed on in 1786.
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“Don’t try to be different. Just be good. To be good is different enough.” -Arthur Freed
I’m singing in the rain, just singing in the rain;
What a wonderful feeling, I’m happy again.
-Arthur Freed
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“Only those who dare, truly live.” -Ruth Freedman
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A society that puts equality - in the sense of equality of outcome - ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom. The use of force to achieve equality will destroy freedom, and the force, introduced for good purposes, will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interests.
On the other hand, a society that puts freedom first will, as a happy by-product, end up with both greater freedom and greater equality. Though a by-product of freedom, greater equality is not an accident. A free society releases the energies and abilities of people to pursue their own objectives. It prevents some people from arbitrarily suppressing others. It does not prevent some people from achieving positions of privilege, but so long as freedom is maintained, it prevents those positions of privilege from becoming institutionalized; they are subject to continued attack by other able, ambitious people. Freedom means diversity but also mobility. It preserves the opportunity for today’s disadvantaged to become tomorrow’s privileged and, in the process, enables almost everyone, from top to bottom, to enjoy a fuller and richer life.
-Milton Friedman
“Our society is what we make it. We can shape our institutions. Physical and human characteristics limit the alternatives available to us. But none prevents us, if we will, from building a society that relies primarily on voluntary cooperation to organize both economic and other activity, a society that preserves and expands human freedom, that keeps government in its place, keeping it our servant and not letting it become our master.” -Milton Friedman
“The long-range solution to high unemployment is to increase the incentive for ordinary people to save, invest, work, and employ others. We make it costly for employers to employ people; we subsidize people not to go to work. We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.” -Milton Friedman: as quoted in “US News & World Report” (March 1977)
Milton Friedman was born on 31 July 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, United States of America. He became an economist. Milton Friedman passed on in 2006.
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“If you roll out the red carpet for a billionaire, they won’t even notice it. If you roll out the red carpet for a millionaire, they expect it. If you roll out the red carpet for a thousandaire, they appreciate it. If you roll out the red carpet for a hundredaire, they tell everybody they know.” -Patricia Fripp
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“Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.” -Erich Fromm
“There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.” -Erich Fromm
“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
Erich Seligmann Fromm was born on 23 March 1900 in Frankfurt, Germany. He became a philosopher, a social psychologist, and a psychoanalyst. Erich Seligmann Fromm passed on at 79 years of age on 18 March 1980 in Muralto, Switzerland.
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“Don’t aim for success. If you want it, just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.” -David Frost
David Paradine Frost was born on 7 April 1939 in Tenterden, Kent, England. He became a television host, a media personality, a journalist, a comedian, and a writer. He is known as the host of the satirical television program “That Was the Week That Was” starting in 1962. David Paradine Frost passed on at 74 years of age on 31 August 2013 aboard the cruise ship MS Queen Elizabeth in the Mediterranean Sea.
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“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge one for yourself.” -James Froude
James Anthony Froude was born in 1818. James Anthony Froude passed on in 1894.
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A man convinced against his will,
stands opposed ever still.
A man convinced he is right,
gives the effort twice the fight.
-Jeffrey Fry
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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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“Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.” -Margaret Fuller
“Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!” -Margaret Fuller: “Summer on the Lakes, in 1843” (1844)
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.” -Margaret Fuller
Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller Ossoli, also known simply as Margaret Fuller was born on 23 May 1810 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. She became a journalist, an editor, and a critic. Sarah Margaret ‘Margaret’ Fuller Ossoli passed on at 40 years of age on 19 July 1850 in the sinking of the oceangoing ship ‘Elizabeth’ off the coast of Fire Island, New York, United States of America.
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“I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren’t any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this Earth, you wouldn’t be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes in the world come about. So be that person.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller was born in 1895. He was an American architect, a designer, an inventor, a philosopher, a futurist, a writer of more than 30 books, and a poet. He popularized the geodesic dome. The carbon molecules known as ‘fullerenes’ were named by scientists in his honor for their resemblance to geodesic spheres. Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller passed on in 1983.
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“A fox should not be on the jury at a goose’s trial.” -Thomas Fuller
“My dame feeds her hens with mere thanks and they laid no eggs.” -Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller was born on 19 June 1608 in Northamptonshire, England. He became a preacher, a historian, and a writer. Thomas Fuller passed on at about 53 years of age on 16 August 1661 in Covent Garden, England.
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“He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
“If you sleep till Noon, you have no right to complain that the Days are short.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732)
“It is better to have a Hen to Morrow, than an Egg to Day.” -Thomas Fuller: “Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs” (1732), number 2916
Thomas Fuller was born on 24 June 1654 in Rosehill, Sussex, England. He became a physician, a preacher, and an adage collector. Thomas Fuller passed on at 80 years of age on 17 September 1734.
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