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FELIX FRANKFURTER Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page be... FELIX MENDELSSOHN When you're writing, you're in a totally different zone... I can start a difficult poem and ... FELIX DENNIS Aviation - and space travel, in particular - have always been especially captivating. FELIX BAUMGARTNER I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I&... FELIX HERNANDEZ Money is power. Power is an aphrodisiac. FELIX DENNIS The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications... FELIX KLEIN With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazin... FELIX DENNIS Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. FELIX FRANKFURTER Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders w... FELIX DENNIS You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply becaus... FELIX ADLER Freedom of the press is not an end in itself but a means to the end of [achieving] a free society. FELIX FRANKFURTER It is anomalous to hold that in order to convict a man the police cannot extract by force what is in... FELIX FRANKFURTER I have learned that track doesn't define me. My faith defines me. I'm running because I have... ALLYSON FELIX With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advanc... FELIX DENNIS A right without an attendant responsibility is as unreal as a sheet of paper which has only one side... FELIX MORLEY Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, peopl... FELIX DENNIS We are having to live with paying the price for what happened before. FELIX SABATES Generally the theories we believe we call facts, and the we disbelieve we call theories. FELIX COHEN Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. FELIX FRANKFURTER To some lawyers all facts are created equal. FELIX FRANKFURTER Twenty years ago I was at Daytona and we qualified on the front row and somebody told me that it was... FELIX SABATES My dad's a pastor and a seminary professor; my mom, she has such great faith. ALLYSON FELIX The biggest way I stay motivated is to run with a group of friends. Sometimes it's hard to get g... ALLYSON FELIX My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely... ALLYSON FELIX It was not until the end of my freshman year in high school that I thought I could really have a fut... ALLYSON FELIX The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome... FELIX DENNIS