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A hungry stomach cannot hear. ↗

— Jean de La Fontaine

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I cannot imagine any other country in the world where the opposition would seek, and the chief executive would allow, the dissemination of his most private and personal conversations with his staff, which, to be honest, do not exactly confer sainthood on anyone concerned. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

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I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible. ↗

— Henry Ford

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This country cannot afford the deceptive luxury of waging defensive warfare. ↗

— James Forrestal

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The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation. ↗

— Robert Fortune

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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. ↗

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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High rank and soft manners may not always belong to a true heart. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off. ↗

— John Thorn

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An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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