Every American autobiography, someone once said, is about one thing—escape. Look into the frightened heart of an American life, and you’ll find a compulsion to flee—a seed planted in the national character at the start by those ships sailing out of Europe and landing on our shores.
— Teller: A Novel


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When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
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It goes back to the Greeks. Plato was an idealist, Aristotle was a materialist.
JENNIFER FREDERICK
Mammon is the largest slave-holder in the world
FREDERICK SAUNDERS
Through art and science in their broadest senses it is possible to make a permanent contribution tow...
FREDERICK SANGER
We cannot be certain right now how the events of last week will ultimately impact the U.S. and globa...
FREDERICK SMITH
I was so despondent, wondering what I am going to do, and then the minister herself called.
FREDERICK SMITH
Despite uncertainty related to Katrina and other economic conditions, we remain optimistic about glo...
FREDERICK SMITH
We're forecasting it will get better, but we'd like to see it get better faster,
FREDERICK SMITH
It's become increasingly difficult to find places with the proper size and other characteristics.
FREDERICK SMITH
In the near-term, there are economic concerns but overall we see continued improvements in the globa...
FREDERICK SMITH
Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - an...
FREDERICK SMITH
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the f...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
We panicked a little bit after that spurt. We took some shots that were uncharacteristic of our team...
JIM FREDERICK
I turned my attention for a while to gamma ray astronomy and soon began the first in a continous ser...
FREDERICK REINES
The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship.
FREDERICK FORSYTH
Not that pleading can be taken as a test, for the forms of action, notably Debt, ignore the fundamen...
FREDERICK POLLOCK
Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
FREDERICK SAUNDERS
I hope that not only my documentaries, but everybody's documentaries, last. It will really confuse h...
FREDERICK WISEMAN
They're all movies. I've always just done whatever interested me and this interested me. I never fel...
FREDERICK WISEMAN
Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN
I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the ch...
FREDERICK WISEMAN
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who...
FREDERICK REINES
During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassing...
FREDERICK REINES
(Gore) can clearly disagree, but the president has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretaps ...
FREDERICK JONES
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why t...
FREDERICK SODDY
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
FREDERICK SODDY
A man's character always takes its hue, more or less, from the form and color of things about hi...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
This howling mouth, this head which rolls back and tries to escape.
FREDERICK LEBOYER
But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.
FREDERICK SODDY
It's a smart strategic move for XM because they need to answer the Howard Stern question. It's not a...
FREDERICK MORAN
I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposit...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH
FDX Corp. is benefiting from the accelerated move to fast-cycle production and distribution methods,...
FREDERICK SMITH
This strategic investment in the long-term growth of China will broaden and deepen our relationship ...
FREDERICK SMITH
Gary's leadership transformed FedEx Kinko's into a global network offering the industry's broadest r...
FREDERICK SMITH
\[Gore\] can clearly disagree, but the President has made his opinion quite clear on the NSA wiretap...
FREDERICK JONES
The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom.
FREDERICK FORSYTH
We've been delighted at the outcomes of these events. We begin planning earlier and earlier each yea...
CAROLE FREDERICK
Go where your best prayers take you.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER
Among my activities was membership in the Boy Scouts; I rose each year through the ranks, eventually...
FREDERICK REINES
I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed mo...
FREDERICK SANGER
It is odd how learned persons fail to see that new terms and definitions are apt to mean new doubts ...
FREDERICK POLLOCK
...I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and the ar...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
Slaves were expected to sing as well as to work. A silent slave was not liked, either by masters or ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
The chance is now given you to end in a day the bondage of centuries, and to rise in one bound from ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me
FREDERICK DOUGLASS
I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to b...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS