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Abraham Lincoln quote: "The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a..."
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land. Abraham Lincoln
The fine thing about pacts with the devil is that when you sign them you are well aware of their conditions. Otherwise, why would you be recompensed with hell? Umberto Eco
Science is the key to our future, and if you don’t believe in science, then you’re holding everybody back. And it’s fine if you as an adult want to run around pretending or claiming that you don’t believe in evolution, but if we educate a generation of people who don’t believe in science, that’s a recipe for disaster. We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young... Bill Nye
But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. Anthony Trollope
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and..."
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It's funny, isn't it, what will make you break? Your lover moves to London and falls in love with a news reader for the BBC and you feel fine and then one day you raise your umbrella slightly to cross Fifty-seventh Street and stare into the Burberry shop and begin to sob. Or your baby dies at birth and five years later, in an antique store, a small battered silver rattle with teeth marks in one end engraved with the name Emily lies on a square of velvet, and the sobs escape from the genie's... A. Whitney Brown
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine. When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this... Anne Lamott
Nora Ephron quote: "Insane people are always sure they're fine. It's sane people..."
Insane people are always sure they're fine. It's sane people who are willing to admit they are crazy. Nora Ephron
Of course, you’ll have to fly to the refugee camp at Dadaab,” Will observed thoughtfully at one point. He glanced at me. “To avoid the bandits,” he explained. Dan and Nick nodded gravely. “I beg your pardon?” I said, taking a sudden interest. “It’s bandit country all round there,” Will said. “Where?” I asked, peering at the map for the first time. “Oh, just there,” Will said, waving a hand vaguely across most of east Africa. “But you’ll be fine in a plane.” “They only rarely shoot at... Bill Bryson
A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose. Paul Bowles
No, it was not the money that I valued—what I wanted was to make all this mob of Heintzes, hotel proprietors, and fine ladies of Baden talk about me, recount my story, wonder at me, extol my doings, and worship my winnings. Fyodor Dostoevsky
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not..."
Think of all the fine men we should lose is suicide were not so cowardly F. Scott Fitzgerald
Portia de Rossi quote: "There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed."
There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. Portia de Rossi
George Eliot quote: "It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance. George Eliot
The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child. Anne Lamott

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