"Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms."
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"I know being on a major label is meant to be antiquated, but we're fine with it."
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"Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping."
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"Yes, the words of the Mother can be heard as clearly as we hear one another. But one requires a fine nerve to hear Mother's words."
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"That must be fine, for I don't understand a word."
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"Just be what it is that you are, and that is just fine. You don't have to be what you're not in any way. Live that and live that fully, and that is where you discover ecstasy. You can't really have ecstasy as something other than yourself"
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"Correct is fine but it is better to be interesting"
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"My main point is to be funny; if I can slip a message in there, fine."
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"A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image."
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"Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring."
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"Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity."
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"He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it"
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"Fine," he says. "Then I love you."
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"Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps."
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"Once you get on the ship, everything is fine. Once you get on land, everything is not so fine."
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"Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art."
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"None of us is ever OK, but we all get through everything just fine."
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"Never follow anyone else’s path, unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don’t give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don’t take anyone’s advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine."
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"In the study of the fine arts, they mutually assist each other."
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"We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets."
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