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• What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Facts, Destination, Know How

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• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

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• I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Misunderstood, Facts, Enjoy

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• It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Character, Abhorrent

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• Honestly, if the worst these people can say about me is that I'm gay, then I think I'll be fine. I can handle it.

  Zac Efron

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

  John Keats

  Inspirational, Reading Poetry, Remembrance

  Letter to John Taylor, 27 February 1818, in H. E. Rollins (ed.) 'The Letters of John Keats' (1958) vol. 1, p. 238

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• Though a quarrel in the streets is a thing to be hated, the energies displayed in it are fine; the commonest man shows a grace in his quarrel.

  John Keats

  Hate, Men, Grace

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.760, e-artnow

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• Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

  William Whewell

  Bending, Lines, Force

  Elementary Treatise on Mechanics ch. 4 (1819). This is an instance of unintentional rhyme and meter. After the passage's poetical qualities were pointed out to him,Whewell altered it in subsequent editions of the book.

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• Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

  John Wooden

  Friendship, Art, Book

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• A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, House, Tasks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• I think it’s fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  Zac Efron

  Girl, Boys, Thinking

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• I want all my friends, family and fans to know that I am in good spirits and I will be fine.

  Lil' Kim

  Fans, Want, Spirit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.

  Louise Bogan

  Flower, Order, Class

  Louise Bogan (1970). “A Poet's Alphabet: Reflections on the Literary Art and Vocation”, New York : McGraw-Hill

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• Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Art, Excellence, Chiefs

  EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (1875). “VICTORIAN POETS”, p.156

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• If someone wants to sticker a record for whatever reason, that's fine. But once it affects someone's opportunity to, you know, get that record, then I have a problem with it.

  Scott Ian

  Opportunity, Records, Want

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• Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Thinking, People, Prudent

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1967). “1708-1720”

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• Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, Gold, Coal

  Tim Cahill (1987). “Jaguars ripped my flesh: adventure is a risky business”, Bantam Dell Pub Group

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• One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.

  Amber Tamblyn

  Friends, Christian, Religious

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• The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, People, Curiosity

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• But we talk about issues, we talk about people, we talk about personalities. George is a very good reader of people, and he's very perceptive about people, and you know, that's fine.

  Laura Bush

  Talking, Issues, People

  "Laura Bush on U.S. Political Divide". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. August 5, 2004.

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• I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

  Oliver Stone

  Giving, Give And Take, Debris

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• Whatever title you want to lay on me is fine. I am still working; you know what I'm saying?

  George Thorogood

  Titles, Want, Stills

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• I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

  Jason Mewes

  Jobs, New York, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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