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• Ultimately, 'how's it going?' is the most futile and the most profound of questions. To answer it precisely, one would have to make a scrupulous inventory of one's psyche, considering each aspect in detail. No matter: we have to say 'fine' out of politeness and civility and change the subject, or else ruminate the question during our whole lives and reserve our reply for afterward.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Profound, Details, Answers

  Pascal Bruckner (2011). “Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happy”, p.19, Princeton University Press

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• Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get up,/ Write it down, but it was late,/ and I was exhausted from working/ all day in the garden, moving rocks./ Now, I remember only the flavor--/ not like food, sweet or sharp./ More like a fine powder, like dust./ And I wasn't elated or frightened,/ but simply rapt, aware./ That's how it is sometimes--/ God comes to your window,/ all bright light and black wings,/ and you're just too tired to open it.

  Dorianne Laux

  Sweet, Moving, Writing

  Dorianne Laux (1994). “What we carry: poems”, BOA Editions Ltd.

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• Enjoy it - making music is a wonderful way to spend your life.. but do it for the love before a career... it's getting so unforgiving out there - I hate to think of the obstacles in the way now for new artists.. if you love it and you are good, you will be fine.. but be prepared to have to work hard and don't judge your success by other peoples opinions.. have self belief.

  Nigel Godrich

  Hate, Hard Work, Love Is

  "Atoms For Peace, Thom Yorke & Nigel Godrich". "Ask Me Anything", www.reddit.com.

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• It was fine and good to be defiant to the end, but it was better not to get caught in the first place.

  Julie Kagawa

  Firsts, Ends, Caught

  Julie Kagawa (2013). “The Immortal Rules”, p.11, Harlequin

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• Sir: It gives me pleasure to report to you the fine bearing and soldierly conduct of Captain Wilson and his men whilst absent on special duty. Though their duties were more arduous than those of others, they were always prompt and ready for performance of all they were called upon to do. As a body they would be a credit to any organization, and I will be glad to be associated with them on duty at any time.

  John Taylor Wood

  Marine, Men, Organization

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• Each individual creature on this beautiful planet is created by God to fulfil a particular role. Whatever I have achieved in life is through His help and an expression of His will. He showered His grace on me through some outstanding teachers and colleagues and when I pay my tributes to these fine persons, I am merely praising His glory. We are all born with a divine fire in us.

  Abdul Kalam

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Teacher

  Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam, Arun Tiwari (1999). “Wings of Fire: An Autobiography”, p.15, Universities Press

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• Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Writing, Creative, Intuition

  Edgar Allan Poe (2016). “Edgar Allan Poe's Complete Poetical Works”, p.244, My Ebook Publishing House

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• Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Time, Blow, Wind

  "Song of a Man Who Has Come Through" l. 1 (1920)

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• There's a very fine line between winning and losing. Every team in the NFL has talent,but attitude is the biggest thing that counts - that, and playing together as a team. If you can capture that feeling, then you'll have success.

  Ray Bentley

  Attitude, Team, Winning

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• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.

  Andrew Jackson Downing

  Beautiful, Spring, Flower

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• Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James in his bed, the way it always always was. Look, if that's all that happened, if his dying just meant that I would be waiting for him to say something instead of listening to him say something, it would have been fine.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Waiting, Listening, Dying

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• I liked Nixon fine, but Nixon was not a partier

  George Smathers

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• A fine head of hair adds beauty to a good face, and terror to an ugly one.

  Lycurgus of Sparta

  Hair, Add, Ugly

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• If you love something, the work will be just fine.

  Herbert Matter

  Love, Photography, Work

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• Don't be too brave. Bravery is a fine thing on some occasions, but sometimes it can be quite a dangerous thing. The stiff upper lip is not always the best.

  Jeremy Brett

  Bravery, Lips, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before him. A science-fiction writer envisions another world, and then some space probe finds it. If you believe in something strongly enough, I think you can make it happen.

  Ridley Pearson

  Dream, Believe, Reality

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• Wherever you may go
  Wherever you may have been
  Saying goodbye is fine
  If you say hello again

  John Walter Bratton

  Goodbye, Farewell, May

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• Being vintage like a fine wine
  Should make you proud of being old
  And being mature like a cheese
  Certainly explains the mould!
  Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Wine, Vintage

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• Congratulations on turning 60
  Now you can wear what you like
  No one cares, and more particularly
  You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Congratulations, Ems

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• Don't think of 60 as ten years older than 50.
  Think of it as only 1 year older than 59
  Go ahead, as it's your birthday
  Delusion, today, is just fine

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Years

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• O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.

  Patrick Henry

  Should Have, Tyrants, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, Samuel Bryan, Patrick Henry (2017). “The Federalist Papers & Anti-Federalist Papers: Complete Edition of the Pivotal Constitution Debate: Including Articles of Confederation (1777), Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights & Other Amendments – All With Founding Fathers’ Arguments & Decisions about the Constitution”, p.77, Madison & Adams Press

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• Thank God I arrived the day before yesterday, the first of the month, at this port of San Diego, truly a fine one, and not without reason called famous.

  Junipero Serra

  Yesterday, Thank God, San Diego

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• It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time — for jittery people.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Scared

  "Conversations with William Styron".

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