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For though I do not ask for aid, we need it. – J. R. R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, spoken by Boromir
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference. – Alan Valentine
For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. – Johnny Carson
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. – Nelson Mandela
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human. – Plutarch
For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. – Clarence E. Hodges
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations. – George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
For truth is precious and divine Too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler
For us, a pretty bird is a pretty bird; for an insect, pretty bird is an ugly enemy! – Mehmet Murat ildan
For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted. – Frantz Fanos
For visions come not to polluted eyes. – Mary Howitt
For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control. – Smiles
For what are posessions but things we guard for fear we might need them tomorrow? – Kahlil Gibron, (book) The Profit
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn? – Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For what I have received, my the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. – Storm Jameson
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily, when good is hungry is seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters. – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? – Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act – Dante Alighieri
For what is liberty but the unhampered translation of will into act? – Dante Alighieri
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? – Bible, Mark 8:36
For what were all these country patriots born To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn – George Gordon Byron
for whatever we lose (like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea – e e cummings
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game. – Grantland Rice, "Alumunus Football," Only the Brave and Other Poems, p. 144 (1941)
For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to star, or you will just stay where you are. – D. H. Lawrence

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