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• I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Two, Community, Assistants

  President Obama Announces Sonia Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee, www.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

  Barbra Streisand

  Thinking, Idols, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Nature, Mind, Dawn

  Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp

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• The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.

  Virginia Woolf

  Peace, War, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.797, Wordsworth Editions

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• The existing principle of selfish interest and competition has been carried to its extreme point; and, in its progress, has isolated the heart of man, blunted the edge of his finest sensibilities, and annihilated all his most generous impulses and sympathies.

  Frances Wright

  Selfish, Stupid, Heart

  Frances Wright (1850). “Fanny Wright Unmasked by Her Own Pen: Explanatory Notes, Respecting the Nature and Objects of the Institution of Nashoba, and of the Principles Upon Which It Is Founded”, p.5

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• The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Hurt, People, Finding Yourself

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• I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

  Paul Robeson

  Long, People, Musical

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Bad conduct soils the finest ornament more than filth.

  Plautus

  Ornaments, Soil, Filth

  "Mostellaria". Play by Plautus, I. 3. 133, 1866.

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• Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.

  Ted Nugent

  Guitar, Gibson Guitars, Planets

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• The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Spoiled, Should, Emperor

  Bertolt Brecht (1963). “Plays”

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• I admired Marlon Brando as I grew up. I though he was one of the finest screen actors around.

  Michael Caine

  Actors, Grew Up, Brando

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• I love short trips to New York; to me it is the finest three-day town on earth.

  James Cameron

  Short Love, Travel, New York

  James Cameron (1966). “Witness”

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• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Poetic License, Perfection

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

  Graydon Carter

  Elephants, Self, Empathy

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• His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.

  Phyllis Diller

  Inspirational, Half, Hours

  "Fearless and Funny: When Comedy Was Queen" by Michael R. Drew and Robert J. Hughes, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2012.

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• The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

  John Foster Dulles

  Peace, War, Sacrifice

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• The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

  Isadora Duncan

  Children, Feet, Giving

  Isadora Duncan (2013). “My Life (Revised and Updated)”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Love, Hate, Generosity

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• He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Golf, Swings

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• Gibson has been making the finest electric guitars the world has ever witnessed for over 70 years. They are as American as God, guns and rock and roll.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

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• I dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.

  Clive Barker

  Dream, Real, Garden

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Mar 13, 2014

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• In this sense love is of a different order to any other phenomenon, for it may be both an event and a sign of that invisible mechanism I spoke of before; perhaps the finest sign, the most certain. In it’s throes we need neither luck nor science. We are the wheel, and the man who profits by it. We are the star, and the darkness it pierces. We are the butterfly, brief and beautiful.

  Clive Barker

  Beautiful, Stars, Butterfly

  "Galilee". Book by Clive Barker, February 3, 1999.

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• A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Cat, Broken

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• Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

  Haruki Murakami

  Quality, Results, Ability

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 15, 2017

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• The finest people, as people go, cannot help but betray a fair portion of fear and insecurity, even full-blown panic.

  Thomas Ligotti

  People, Insecurity, Panic

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