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“Feral beauty tangled up and over every surface. Enormous vines and flourishing blooms swathed the area creating a shadowy, organic cathedral. A faint whiff of perfume breezed to her, like jasmine, but sweeter, more delicate—if jasmine could be more delicate without losing its scent entirely. The buzzing of alien insects reminded her of the sticky, summer days of her childhood in the South, and cicadas filled her memory with their incessant mating calls. Here, however, the insects grew louder as it grew darker. It seemed even they understood the dangers of daylight.”

“Ferdinando [King of Naples] resolv’d, in good Earnest, to try how to compromise the Affair of the Castles; being persuaded, that that when this Obstacle was remov'd, Matters would easily return into the fame peaceable Channel. But by removing the Causes, the Effects that sprung from them are not always remov'd. For, as it frequently happens, that Resolutions taken out of Fear seldom appear sufficient to the Fearful.”

“Ferdy, who had been standing with his mouth open, staring, suddenly rose superbly to the occasion, and offered his arm to Hero with a graceful bow. 'Let me escort you back to the ballroom!' he said. 'Yes, but- Sherry, you must not mind George's kissing me!' said Hero, looking from one to the other in a little dismay. 'Indeed, there was not the least harm in it, was there, George?' 'Dear Kitten,' promptly replied George, bowing with even more grace than Ferdy, 'there was much pleasure!”

“Fergus gazed into Tom’s eyes so deeply the latter thought he could see into the very core of him. “I’ve loved ye for centuries, not a day,” he whispered, a pained smile touching his lips. “At least in my head. My soul is not free, or I’d offer it to ye. It pains me to the core that this canna last. My heart and body is yers for the wee time that we got, Tom. Take me as ye will.”

“Ferguson and colleagues also reviewed that thin models in the media have comparatively small effects on body dissatisfaction, and mainly on women with preexisting weight concerns and/or high neuroticism. Instead, the largest and most consistent effects are those of mating competition in the peer network -that is, the number of attractive and available women in one's inmediate social environment (for example, friends and colleagues).”

“Ferguson, as a manager, and Ken, as a director, are very similar. One's a great manager, the other a great director, but both have a lot of humanity and a lot of humility. They always give you the energy... with Ferguson when we played a game it was like it was his first game - he's so passionate and gives you ambition every time. And Ken works the same way - they're very similar.”

“Fericirea constă în a fi mulţumiţi cu noi înşine. De multe ori, nu mai ştim să fim fericiţi, fiind prinşi în rutina zilnică ce ne complică existenţa, în vîrtejul clipelor ce ne aruncă în bâltoaca frustrărilor şi a complexelor. Trebuie să ne oprim o clipă din alergarea nebună prin viaţă şi să ne ascultăm nevoile sufletului. Atunci, vom şti să ne bucurăm de mirosul proaspăt al ploii, de verdele crud al firelor de iarbă ce se leagănă în adierea vântului, de cerul încărcat de stele din nopţile liniştite de vară, de frunzele arămii ce parcă valsează prin atmosfera încărcată de emoţie din zilele răcoroase de toamnă, de roadele pământului care musteşte de viaţă... de fiecare zâmbet ce ne pastelează efemeritatea clipelor. Ploaie de gânduri”

“Fericirea este potențialul nostru, produsul unei minți căreia i se permite să gândească așa cum are nevoie să o facă, care are suficient din ce este necesar, care nu e afectată de greutatea cumplită a bullying-ului. Când suntem copii, tolerăm condiții de muncă pe care le-am considera inacceptabile ca adulți: expunerea constantă a realizărilor noastre în fața unei audiențe ostile; motivația prin amenințare în loc de încurajare; lumea socială în care se face mișto de tine și ești sâcâit, în care cele mai jenante dorințe ale tale sunt expuse, în care corpul tău nou format este expus unui gen de examinare care ar distruge un adult. Adesea, în timpul copilăriei, asta vine la pachet și cu amenințări fizice - să fii împins și tras la locul de joacă, lovit cu pumnii sau picioarele. Eterna amenințare că ceva și mai sălbatic te așteaptă după colț pe drumul spre casă. Imaginați-vă cum ați percepe asta ca adulți: acea amenințare permanentă la adresa integrității corpului tău și a sănătății tale mintale. Nu am accepta niciodată așa ceva, dar am acceptat asta când eram copii pentru că asta se aștepta de la noi și nu aveam altă variantă.”

“Fermi proslul svou schopností jednoduchým a rychlým způsobem odhadnout fyzikální veličiny. Při explozi první jaderné bomby v Alamogordu v poušti v Novém Mexiku 15. července 1945 například upustil kus papíru z výšky ramen a sledoval, jak se vlivem nárazové vlny z bomby odklonil. Tím, že věděl, že epicentrum je devět mil daleko, odhadl energii výbuchu – jednalo se o ekvivalent více než 10 000 tun TNT.”

“Fermium was discovered unexpectedly along with Einsteinium in debris from the first hydrogen bomb test, codenamed ‘Mike’, which took place in the Pacific on October 31, 1952. The debris was collected on filter papers attached to drone airplanes that flew through the explosion area. Later, to obtain more material, many hundreds of pounds of coral from the blast area were examined.”

“FERNANDO.—(Asombrado.) ¡Tío Ezequiel! FERMÍN.—¡El señor Ojeda! MICAELA.—(Yendo de un lado a otro.) ¡Ya ha caído uno! ¡Ya ha caído uno! CLOTILDE.—¡Calla, Micaela, calla! (A Luisa.) Tú, trae árnica y algodón, que el señor debe de tener mordeduras. LUISA.—Sí, señora. (Se va por la escalera.) EZEQUIEL.—¡Y agua! CLOTILDE.—¡Y agua! Un vaso de agua para el susto. PRÁXEDES.—Agua, hay aquí. ¿Qué dice? ¿Qué no? ¡Ah! Bueno, por eso… (Le sirve un vaso de la mesa a Ezequiel.) EZEQUIEL.—Yo debo de estar malísimo, porque veo la habitación llena de muebles. FERNANDO.—Y lo está realmente, tío Ezequiel. EZEQUIEL.—¡Vaya! Menos mal. Eso me tranquiliza. CLOTILDE.—¡Qué cosa tan desagradable, Dios mío! Tiene usted mordeduras, ¿verdad? EZEQUIEL.—Sí. Tengo de todo. CLOTILDE.—¡Claro! Si Micaela le echó encima a Caín y a Abel… FERNANDO.—¿Te han mordido los perros, tío? EZEQUIEL.—¿Los perros? No. Aquella señora. (Señala a Micaela.). Los perros no hacían más que ladrar los animalitos. Pero aquella señora… Sujetadla bien, que no vuelva.”

“Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), a Portuguese poet, writer, and philosopher said, ‘The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd – The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regrets over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”