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“Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.”

“Felicity," Mrs. Featherington interurupted, "why don't you tell Mr. Brdgerton about your watercolors?" For the life of him, Colin couldn't imagine a less interesting topic (except maybe for Phillipa's watercolors), but he nonetheless turned to the youngest Featherington with a friendly smile and asked, "And how are your watercolors?" But Felicity, bless her heart, gave him a rather friendly smile herself and said nothing but, "I imagine they're fine, thank you.”

“Felicità o infelicità non sono quasi mai uno stato di fatto, premio o condanna dell'esistenza, immutabile condizione di gioia o disperazione. Il loro senso profondo si nasconde invece nel mutamento: in ciò che, proprio in quanto felici o infelici, siamo o non siamo in grado di fare per noi e per gli altri intorno a noi. "Felice", dal latino "felix" deriva dalla stessa radice verbale fe- di "fecundus", fertile, produttivo. Fecondi non sono solo i campi di grano: fecondi siamo noi, che grazie alla felicità possiamo sorprenderci a compiere gesti o azioni che mai avremmo immaginato. Essere felici non significa quindi non avere problemi, contrattempi, e vivere un imperturbabile stato di quiete - quella si chiama tranquillità, calma, magari "relax" come nei dépliant dei resort in qualche spiaggia esotica. La felicità è invece l'opposto: è l'energia di agire, la gioia di fare, la voglia di cambiare - di essere "fertili", di veder sbocciare i fiori che siamo. E l'infelicità è il suo contrario: l'incapacità di muoversi, di scrollarsi di dosso pensieri pesanti, l'impossibilità di fare anche solo un passo oltre. Essere infelici vuol dire non fare niente, non dire niente, non amare nessuno - rifiutare la fecondità della vita, così imprevedibile di occasioni, e preferire la sterilità, l'assenza di eventi. L'una è azione, l'altra inazione. L'una è slancio verso l'alto, l'altra affondo verso il basso.”

“Felipe Hernandez, a proficient accountant from Lufkin, Texas brings a unique blend of professionalism and passion to his work. While he excels in his financial career, Felipe also possesses a deep love for sports. As a skilled tennis player and Pickleball enthusiast, he understands the importance of discipline and perseverance. Furthermore, Felipe finds solace in reading scripture and relishes the harmonious melodies of the music. Above all, his dedication to his clients and commitment to delivering transparent financial reporting drives his professional endeavors.”

“FELIX. I can't help myself. I drive everyone crazy. A marriage counselor once kicked me out of his office. He wrote on my chart, Lunatic!...I don't blame her. It's impossible to be married to me. OSCAR. It takes two to make a rotten marriage. (Lies back down on the couch.) FELIX. You don't know what I was like at home. I bought her a book and made her write down every penny we spent. Thirty-eight cents for cigarettes, ten cents for a paper. Everything had to go in the book. And then we had a big fight because I said she forgot to write down how much the book was...Who could live with anyone like that?”

“Feliz ano novo de muitos voos, de fe, esperança e liberdade, com muitas viagens e sonhos, e muita musica e felicidade! Brilhando como estrelas no ceu, Jamais deixem morrer a bondade, Pois mais vale o fruto cheio de mel que favos recheados de maldade. Sejam singelos e misericordiosos. Vejam a leveza perante a gravidade. Procurem manter-se nao odiosos. Mais vale o amor que a falsidade. Que seja um ano repleto de bons frutos, Pois ja sofremos demais os nossos lutos.”

“Feliz is our lone jaguar. The last jaguar we had before him died of despair. That wasn't the official cause of death, of course not, but we all knew it. The rumor goes that the zoo's owners, the Pinkton family, paid an obscene amount to acquire another jaguar, probably the only one on Earth, given the state of the countries in which the creature's natural habitat once existed. Feliz was plucked out of the last few acres of the Amazon as the bulldozers waited, like customers impatiently hovering while a buffet is prepared. So Feliz is kind of a big deal. He doesn't appear cognizant of this fact, however. If anything, he looks to be on a mission to wear away the floor of his enclosure until he drops right through the earth and out of this life. He paces without cease. His nails are worn to stubs and his mouth hangs open in a perpetual rictus that wrecks your heart. He longs to forget all this, and to be forgotten.”

“Felizes os que podem ver de longe a pátria nas garras do abutre. O padre parecia dizer-se a si próprio esta melancólica profecia. A guerra, que devia ser nesta época o móvel de todas as conversações, foi assunto raras vezes tratado pelo padre. Aquele espírito era alto de mais para pascer-se na luta de sórdidas ambições, em que o timbre das bandeiras era o sangue, que esperdiçavam, uns como reses levadas ao açougue do «patriotismo», e outros como aventureiros devorados duma fome que legitima quaisquer princípios, quando a vida é o mais que pode perder-se em comparação ao muito que pode ganhar-se. O padre tinha razão...”

“Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.”

“Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that "sacred fire of liberty" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America.”

“Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.”

“Fellow-feeling. . .is the most important factor in producing a healthy political and social life. Neither our national nor our local civic life can be what it should be unless it is marked by the fellow-feeling, the mutual kindness, the mutual respect, the sense of common duties and common interests, which arise when men take the trouble to understand one another, and to associate together for a common object. A very large share of the rancor of political and social strife arises either from sheer misunderstanding by one section, or by one class, of another, or else from the fact that the two sections, or two classes, are so cut off from each other that neither appreciates the other’s passions, prejudices, and, indeed, point of view, while they are both entirely ignorant of their community of feeling as regards the essentials of manhood and humanity.”