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• Again, like I said, we're not trying to censor anyone. If you think drugs are cool, fine. Make that movie. We are not going to stop you, or try to stop you, but we would encourage other people to be a bit more responsible about their portrayal of drug usage.

  Gerald McRaney

  Thinking, People, Drug

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• His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Knives, Losing, Lost

  'Letter to Maria Gisborne' (1820) l. 240 (on Thomas Love Peacock)

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• Seek but provision of bread and wine, fools to flatter, and clothing fine; and nothing of God shall ever be thine.

  Wes Smith

  Wine, Bread, Fool

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• People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

  Isabel Paterson

  People, Would Be, Ifs

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• Our best teachers do more than impart facts and figures - they inspire and encourage students and instill a true desire to learn. That's a fine art in itself.

  Sonny Perdue

  Teacher, Encouragement, Art

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• All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

  Peter McWilliams

  Creative, Humanity, Sparks

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• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  Major Taylor

  Confidence, Sports, Champion

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Games, Appreciate

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• For a few moments, attune your mind to the idea of harmony and peaceful coexistence flowing among all peoples and nations. The source of this idea is deep within your heart. As you calmly breathe in and out, picture it radiating from you like a fine, colored vapor gradually covering the face of the earth. See it enter the hearts of everyone, especially those stuck in the mad zones. Feel it circulate everywhere until it comes all the way round and back to you. This is love in action. The source of this love is the Tao. Savor this.

  Stephen Russell

  Heart, Love Is, Ideas

  Stephen Russell (1998). “Barefoot Doctor's Handbook for the Urban Warrior: A Spiritual Survival Guide”, Piatkus Books

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• Dissembling courtesy! How fine this tyrant can trickle when she wounds!

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Tyrants, Courtesy

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• My fines? I pay more fines than some guys' career prize money on the tour.

  Goran Ivanisevic

  Prize Money, Careers, Tennis

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• Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

  Virginia Wade

  Determination, Tennis, Balance

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• I've always had great satisfaction out of writing the plays. I've not always had great satisfaction out of seeing them produced-although often I've had satisfaction there. When things go well in production, on opening there's no nicer feeling in the world-what could be nicer than watching an audience respond? You can't that from a book. It's a fine feeling to walk into the theater and see living people respond to something you've done.

  Lillian Hellman

  Book, Writing, Play

  Lillian Hellman, Jackson R. Bryer (1986). “Conversations with Lillian Hellman”, p.125, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Skill is fine, and genius is splendid, but the right contacts are more valuable than either.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Skills, Genius, Splendid

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• Though confidence is very fine, and makes the future sunny; I want no confidence for mine, I'd rather have the money

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Want, Sunny

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• In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Prison, Slave

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• A coxcomb is ugly all over with the effectation of a fine gentleman.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Gentleman, Ugly

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• The baby is fine. The only problem is that he looks like Edward G. Robinson.

  Woody Allen

  Baby, Children, Looks

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• The best part of health is fine disposition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Health, Disposition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Long, Hypocrisy, Champion

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• Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

  Beatrice Warde

  Art, Humility, Self

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• That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

  Nick Willis

  Sports, Sweet, Track

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• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Mistake, Design, Style

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• Amazing fine tuning occurs in the laws that make this complexity possible. Realization of the complexity of what is accomplished makes it very difficult not to use the word 'miraculous' without taking a stand as to the ontological status of the word.

  George F. R. Ellis

  Science, Law, If There Is A God

  "The Anthropic Principle: Laws and Environments". Article in "The Anthropic Principle: Proceedings of the Second Venice Conference on Cosmology and Philosophy", book edited by F. Bertola and U. Curi, Cambridge University Press, p. 30, 1988.

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