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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class. — J. Willard Marriott
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? — Thomas Carlyle
Fines are preferable to imprisonment and other types of punishment because they are more efficient. With a fine, the punishment to offenders is also revenue… — Gary Becker
She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. — John Green
You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine… — Paul Washer
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that… — Carl Zimmer
I think still it is very fine not to want children. There are far too many people in the world. It is my contribution to… — Helen Mirren
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail. — Joan Blades
One ought, everyday, to hear a song, read a fine poem, and, if possible, to speak a few reasonable words. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant… — Barack Obama
Affirmations are like screaming that you're okay in order to overcome this whisper that you're not. That's a big contrast to actually uncovering the whisper,… — Pema Chodron
And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the… — Joseph Smith, Jr.
If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are… — Odo of Cluny
A fine marksman is with a second rate rifle is far more effective than the reverse. — Jeff Cooper
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street... — Jack Kerouac
Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will. — James Taylor
Dear mama, yo baby boys doing fine tell the homies I'm in heaven and they aint got hoods. — Tupac Shakur
You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so- fine. But don't expect it, and most of all, don't sit around waiting for it. — Unknown Author
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening… — William Makepeace Thackeray
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken… — Unknown Author
Hinduism has made marvelous discoveries in things of religion, of the spirit, of the soul. We have no eye for these great and fine discoveries.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Haemoglobin is a very large molecule by ordinary standards, containing about ten thousand atoms, but the chances are that your haemoglobin and mine are identical,… — Francis Crick
Think of a fine painter attempting to capture an inner vision, beginning with one corner of the canvas, painting what she thinks should be there,… — Anne Lamott

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