Finely Quotes
84 quotes by 74 authors
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God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man,…
— Francis Bacon
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Some physicists solve that problem of the necessity of finely tuned physical constants ... by invoking the anthropic principle, saying, well, here we are, we…
— Richard Dawkins
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When you realize that the laws of nature must be incredibly finely tuned to produce the universe we see, that conspires to plant the idea…
— John Polkinghorne
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please…
— John Selden
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A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
— Albert Einstein
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CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs you’ll have more than you need to fall…
— Brett Hestla
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The distinction between what is real and what is imaginary is not one that can be finely maintained ... all existing thing are ... imaginary.
— Gregg Braden
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp…
— Annie Dillard
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Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their…
— Alcaeus
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Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are…
— Leslie Morgan Steiner
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With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.
— Charles Churchill
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For every grand and finely worded statement by the CEO, the brand is also defined by derisory consumer comments overheard in a hallway, or in…
— Scott Bedbury
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To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it,…
— Alan Watts
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This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...…
— Mark Bostridge
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Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in…
— Hugh Mackay
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Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with…
— William Shakespeare
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Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making…
— Deborah Harkness
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I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the…
— Fred Bear
Who Wrote These Finely Quotes
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