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• I'm not staid and unbiased here. I have certain biases I want to convey, and if you disagree, that's fine.

  Neil Cavuto

  Prejudice, Unbiased, Want

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• "Why is it sports is the only thing white people see us being successful at? I don't want to play football," he said. "I wanna be a lawyer." "That's fine with me," I said, a little annoyed. "I've just never heard of a Negro lawyer, that's all. You've got to hear of these things before you can imagine them." "Bullshit. You gotta imagine what's never been."

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Sports, Football, Successful

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

  LaToya London

  Careers, Publicity, Foxes

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• Actually, documentary pictures include every subject in the world - good, bad, indifferent. I have yet to see a fine photograph which is not a good document.

  Berenice Abbott

  World, Documentaries, Photographer

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• Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• If you can laugh at yourself, you are going to be fine. If you allow others to laugh with you, you will be great.

  Martin Niemoller

  Laughing, Catchy, Laugh At Yourself

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• We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors, the most remote triumphs of the abstract intellect, seem to carry us into a region different from our own-to be in a terra incognita of pure reasoning, to cast a chill on human glory.

  Walter Bagehot

  Science, Thinking, Ice

  Walter Bagehot, Richard Holt Hutton (1891). “Literary studies ; Religious and metaphysical essays ; Letters on the French coup d'état”

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• Following the herd is fine, until they all run off the side of a cliff together.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Spiritual, Atheist

  "Glenn Beck: Don't follow herd on the economy" by Glenn Beck, edition.cnn.com. February 28, 2008.

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• The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly tabernacles for more of our Father's children. We know that every spirit assigned to this earth will come, whether through us or someone else. There are couples in the Church who think they are getting along just fine with their limited families but who will someday suffer the pains of remorse when they meet the spirits that might have been part of their posterity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Couple, Pain

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). “God, family, country: our three great loyalties”

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• Just by coincidence, Senator Teddy Kennedy and I, in the last couple of days, after several months of negotiations, have reached an agreement for an immigration proposal that we will be putting out next week, ... our proposal is along the lines of make them pay a fine of a couple thousand dollars, make them work for three years, and after three years they can get in the back of the line for a green card and then eventually become citizens.

  John McCain

  Couple, Agreement, Next Week

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• Ornate rhetorick taught out of the rule of Plato.... To which poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being less suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.

  John Milton

  Plato, Simple, Poetry

  'Of Education' (1644)

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• I would decriminalize marijuana, but you step out of your house high and you bother somebody else in any way, shape or form, I'm going to slap a fine on you that's going to curl your hair!

  Bill O'Reilly

  Marijuana, Hair, House

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• There's a fine line in being too specific so you can't be too flexible, and being too vague in being specific and people not thinking it's meaningful.

  Jim Nussle

  Meaningful, Thinking, People

  The Arena Interview with Seung Min Kim, www.politico.com.

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• Our Higher Self is the most intimate thing we could possibly know; eternity is the most comfortable home we could possibly fine.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Home, Self

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• And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

  Simon Raven

  Trust, Patience, Skills

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

  Alex Tabarrok

  Long, Tuning, Conservative

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• If you want to hurt me, fine. Take my books. Burn down my house. Shave my head while I am sleeping. But nobody, nobody screws with my dog.

  Molly Harper

  Dog, Hurt, Book

  Molly Harper (2009). “Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Men, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.451, Manonmani Publishers

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• A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

  Thomas Nelson Page

  Moving, Men, World

  Thomas Nelson Page (2008). “John Marvel, Assistant”, p.354, Wildside Press LLC

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• Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place But none, I think, do there embrace.

  Moliere

  Thinking, Dust, Long

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• It is no response to assert that the Patriot Act has been useful; what you need to explain is how any particular safeguard would have so diluted investigative powers that it would have frustrated an investigation and created a security harm outweighing the benefit to civil liberties. If you'd rather trade scary stories, that's fine too - just let me know so I can buy a bag of marshmallows before our next round.

  Julian Sanchez

  Scary Stories, Frustrated, Liberty

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• Bernstein grew up in my building in New York. He's a very, very fine player. When he was a kid, he came by to find out what was going on in the world of jazz.

  Lee Konitz

  New York, Kids, Player

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• Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear

  Edgar Guest

  Leadership, Confusing, Example

  Edgar Albert Guest, “Sermons We See”

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• The Crime Victims Fund is distributed to service providers who assist millions of crime victims annually throughout our communities in a host of ways. It is paid for by fines levied on criminals, not taxpayers.

  Jim Costa

  Community, Criminals, Way

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• Whatever a poet writes with enthusiasm and a divine inspiration is very fine. Earliest reference to the madness or divine inspiration of poets.

  Democritus

  Inspiration, Writing, Divinity

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