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| The most important thing about motivation is goal setting. You should always have a goal. | Francie Larrieu Smith | American Runner |
| Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
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| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. | Francois De La Rochefoucauld | 1613-1680, French Classical Writer |
| Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal. | Francoise Sagan | 1935-, French Novelist, Playwright |
| We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear those words I say to myself, ''That man is a Red, that man is a Communist.'' You never heard a real American talk in that manner. | Frank Hague | |
| I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. | Frank Lloyd Wright | 1869-1959, American Architect |
| The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. | Frank M. Garafola | |
| Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them. | Frank Moore Colby | 1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist |
| One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. | Frank Moore Colby | 1865-1925, American Editor, Essayist |
| I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization. | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961, French Psychiatrist |
| All human errors are impatience, a premature breaking off of methodical procedure, an apparent fencing-in of what is apparently at issue. | Franz Kafka | 1883-1924, German Novelist, Short-Story Writer |
| Why pay a dollar for a bookmark? Why not use the dollar for a bookmark? | Fred Stoller | |
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| The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters. | Frederic Raphael | 1931-, British Author, Critic |
| People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. | Frederic Raphael | 1931-, British Author, Critic |
| It's good to be clever, but not to show it. | French Proverb | Sayings of French Origin |
| Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book --I call that vicious! | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath. | Friedrich Nietzsche | 1844-1900, German Philosopher |
| Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading, an easy prey to sensations and cheap appeals. | G. M. Trevelyan | 1876-1962, British Historian |
| Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge. | G. M. Trevelyan | 1876-1962, British Historian |
| Who God does not teach, man cannot. | Gaelic Proverb | Sayings of Gaelic Origin |
| To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry. | Gaston Bachelard | 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist |
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| A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. | Gaston Bachelard | 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist |
| Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. | Gaston Bachelard | 1884-1962, French Scientist, Philosopher, Literary Theorist |
| A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| She was short on intellect, but long on shape. | George Ade | 1866-1944, American Humorist, Playwright |
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| Only the more rugged mortals should attempt to keep up with current literature. | George Age | |
| How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first? | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
| A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug. | George Borrow | 1803-1881, British Author |
| Be quick to learn and wise to know. | George Burns | 1896-1996, American Comedy Actor |
| Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| Might, could, would --they are contemptible auxiliaries. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
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