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"Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence."	Henri Estienne
"Friendship is the golden thread that ties the hearts of all hearts of all the world."	John Evelyn
"When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before."	Clifton Paul Fadiman
"Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth... But amusing? Never."	Edna Ferber
"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?"	Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
"It's very good for an idea to be commonplace. The important thing is that a new idea should develop out of what is already there so that it soon becomes an old acquaintance. Old acquaintances aren't by any means always welcome, but at least one can't be mistaken as to who or what they are."	Penelope Fitzgerald
"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."	Gustave Flaubert
"Johnny couldn't read ... for the simple reason that nobody ever showed him how."	Rudolf Franz Flesch
"Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success."	Henry Ford
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves."	Edward Morgan Forster
"The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."	Anatole France
"There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."	Benjamin Franklin
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."	Benjamin Franklin
"To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime."	Erich Fromm
"Love your children with all your hearts, love them enough to discipline them before it is too late. ... Praise them for important things, even if you have to stretch them a bit. Praise them a lot. They live on it like bread and butter and they need it more than bread and butter."	Lavina Christensen Fugal
"Today a reader--tomorrow a leader."	W. Fusselman
"Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
"Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue."	Giuseppe Garibaldi
"We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank."	Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Henry Ford	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Henry Ward Beecher
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Henry Miller	Henry M. Jackson	Herbert Clark Hoover
Herman Melville	Hugh McColl, Jr.	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky
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