#ash

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion. ↗

— Anatole France

#act #fashion #human #human nature #nature

It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit. ↗

— Anatole France

#cash #credit #only #pay #poor

The dead and past stories that I have told again in divers fashions, are not set down without authority. ↗

— Marie de France

#authority #dead #divers #down #fashions

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then. ↗

— Thomas Frank

#even #every #extremely #finally #good

The only way I'm interested in having a baby is the old-fashioned way. ↗

— Bethenny Frankel

#having #having a baby #i #interested #old-fashioned

The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#exercise #invisible #power #real #rulers

Yes, I've always been fashion conscious. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#been #conscious #fashion #i #yes

I can spot someone with similar fashion sense to me a mile off. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#i #i can #me #mile #off

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#always #apart #beijing #beirut #better

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. ↗

— Robert Frost

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