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• I think that the ideals of youth are fine, clear and unencumbered; and that the real art of living consists in keeping alive the conscience and sense of values we had when we were young.

  Rockwell Kent

  Art, Children, Real

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• There are celestial sights more dazzling, spectacles that inspire more awe, but to the thoughtful observer who is privileged to see them well, there is nothing in the sky so profoundly impressive as the canals of Mars. Fine lines and little gossamer filaments only, cobwebbing the face of the Martian disk, but threads to draw one's mind after them across the millions of miles of intervening void.

  Percival Lowell

  Thoughtful, Sight, Sky

  Percival Lowell (1908). “Mars as the abode of life”

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• To avoid the hard necessity of either obeying or rejecting the plain instructions of our Lord in the New Testament we take refuge in a liberal interpretation of them. We evangelicals also know how to avoid the sharp point of obedience by means of fine and intricate explanations. These are tailor-made for the flesh. They excuse disobedience, comfort carnality and make the words of Christ of none effect. And the essence of it all is that Christ simply could not have meant what He said. His teachings are accepted even theoretically only after they have been weakened by interpretation.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Teaching, Mean, Essence

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• As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

  Stephen Leacock

  Country, Fighting, Winning

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• The line between failure and success is so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a person has thrown up his or her hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience, would have achieved success. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Determination, Persistence, Hands

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• I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Believe, Feelings, Elements

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Religion, a Dialogue, Etc: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.35, 谷月社

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  Alexander Pope

  Block, Vulgarity Is, Razors

  'Miscellanies' (1727) vol. 2 'Thoughts on Various Subjects'

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• A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

  John Keats

  Taken, Men, Should Have

  Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 22 November 1817, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 188

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• I think what I do differently from a lot of TV chefs is that I break down barriers and make fine food more accessible to the regular person, who might be intimidated. I try hard, particularly with wine, to make it not intimidating. It's sort of a teaching job.

  Ted Allen

  Jobs, Teaching, Wine

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

  John Steinbeck

  Friendship, People, Kind

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• I'm simply the happiest, the placidest, when I'm writing, and so I suppose that that, for me, is the final answer. ... It's fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats as I am most of the time.

  William Styron

  Writing, People, Finals

  William Styron, James L. W. West (1985). “Conversations with William Styron”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I left home at 17, traveled. I got married when I was 21. That's a young age. As it turned out, things were fine, then not so fine, and then it was a blunder. That happens all the time.

  Fred Couples

  Home, Age, Married

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• Without leisure there can be neither art nor science nor fine conversation, nor any ceremonious performance of the offices of love and friendship.

  Lewis Mumford

  Art, Office, Love And Friendship

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Sweet, Art, Mistake

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.

  Russell Lynes

  Art, Book, Car

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• Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

  Barbra Streisand

  Men, World, Being A Woman

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• Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.

  Martin Amis

  Thinking, Mirrors, Funny Things

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• I'm not against digital photography. It's great for newspapers. And there are photographers doing great work digitally. When they use Photoshop as a darkroom tool, that's fine, too. But at this point of my life, after so many years, I don't really want to change, and I still love film.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Photography, Years, Tools

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• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Familiar

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Hands, Names

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• Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

  Kenny Rogers

  Boys, Bored, House

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• I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend more than one class of topics, one row of shelves. I like a person who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Class, Tragedy

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• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Tired

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• Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Children, Medicine, People

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