Monday, January 26, 2015

Quotations Index - F


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Clifton Fadiman

"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things
 friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no
 longer mention."

"One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things
 friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no
 longer mention."
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William Faulkner

"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth."
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Federal Judge Martin L.C. Feldman

"The Court is persuaded that a meaning of what is marriage that has endured in history for thousands of years, and prevails in a majority of states today, is not universally irrational."
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Richard Feynman

* "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool."
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Stephen Johnson Field
[Associate Justice, SCOTUS]

* "The present assault on capital is but the beginning. It will be but the stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich—a war constantly growing in intensity and bitterness." - Concurring in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co., 157 U. S. 429, 607 (1895)
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W. C. Fields

"Anyone who hates children and dogs can't be all bad."
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Martin H. Fischer

"Don't confuse hypothesis and theory.  the former is a possible explanation; the latter, the correct one.  The establishment of theory is the very purpose of science."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

"For what it's worth: It's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over." ~
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Zelda Fitzgerald

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."
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Gustave Flaubert

"Cependant, qui sait? La terre a des limites, mais la bêtise humaine est infinie!" = "But who knows? The earth has its boundaries, but human stupidity is infinite!"
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Henry Ford

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business."

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin more intelligently."
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Brendan Francis

"The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it."
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Anne Frank

* "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
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Felix Frankfurter
[Associate Justice, SCOTUS]

"The Procrustean bed is not a symbol of equality. It is no less inequality to have equality among unequals."

"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."

"I do take law very seriously, deeply seriously, because fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling."

"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."

* "Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship."
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Victor Frankl

"What is to give light must endure the burning."
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Benjamin Franklin

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

"Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."

* "Distrust & caution are the parents of security."

* "He that is good at making excuses is seldom good for anything else."

* "He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas."

"Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."

"I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."

“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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Frederick, Prince of Wales

"The sooner you have an opportunity to lower the interest, for God's sake, do it... if you can be without war, let not your ambition draw you into it... Flatterers, Courtiers or Ministers, are easy to be got, but a true Friend is difficult to be found... Let your steadiness retrieve the glory of the throne."
 - advice to his son, the future George III, 1789
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Sigmund Freud

* "One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
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Betty Friedan

"The problem that has no name -- which is simply the fact that American women are kept from growing to their full human capacities -- is taking a far greater toll on the physical and mental health of our country than any known disease."   ["The feminine Mystique", 1963]
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Milton Friedman

"The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit."

* "Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another."

* "A society that puts equality before freedom will get neither. A society that puts freedom before equality will get a high degree of both."

“When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union—like public housing in the United States—look decrepit within a year or two of their construction…”

* "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."

* "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results."

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand.”

”[Of the two key Constitutional principles for preserving freedom] [t]he second broad principle is that government power must be dispersed.”

* "Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion — the technique of the army and of the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals—the technique of the market place."

"Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task [protects individuals against coercion] so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself."

“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”

”[Of the two key Constitutional principles for preserving freedom] [first, the scope of government must be limited. Its major function must be to protect our freedom both from the enemies outside our gates and from our fellow-citizens: to preserve law and order, to enforce private contracts, to foster competitive markets.”

"To the free man, the country is the collection of individuals who compose it, not something over and above them."

"A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic, in the sense of guaranteeing individual freedom."

”The possibility of co-ordination through voluntary co-operation rests on the elementary—yet frequently denied—proposition that both parties to an economic transaction benefit from it, provided the transaction is bi-laterally voluntary and informed.”

* "The nineteenth-century liberal regarded an extension of freedom as the most effective way to promote welfare and equality; the twentieth-century liberal regards welfare and equality as either prerequisites of or alternatives to freedom."

* "These then are the basic roles of government in a free society: to provide a means whereby we can modify the rules, to mediate differences among us on the meaning of the rules, and to enforce compliance with the rules on the part of those few who would otherwise not play the game." ~ Milton Friedman

* "Fundamental differences in basic values can seldom if ever be resolved at the ballot box; ultimately they can only be decided, though not resolved, by conflict. The religious and civil wars of history are a bloody testament to this judgment."

"There is no place for government to prohibit consumers from buying products the effect of which will be to harm themselves.
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Carl J. Friedrich

"What was once thought can never be unthought."
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Max Frisch

"Time does not change us. It just unfolds us."
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Erich Fromm

"Sanity - that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought"
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Robert Frost

* "Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

* "In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on."
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James Anthony Froude

"To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible."
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Robert Fulghum

“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.”
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Thomas Fuller

"The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men."
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