Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
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Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow up. We had plenty of boyhood, plenty of girlhood.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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We're supposed to be an example of freedom, and if we are doing things that are injustice to people, then what is our statement?
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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Let's face it; people are doing everything online these days. So if they are going to watch my movies, I'm happy as long as it's being bought legally and being exhibited legally, as long as they are paying even a small fee for it. I'm just anti-piracy. If it's a legitimate way of watching film online, then I'm very happy.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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I've always wanted to create shoes that were positive and happy.
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Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.
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Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
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The defense of marriage is the defense of freedom. Neither of which is obsolete.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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Press and Internet freedom correlate against economic and social success, GDP, innovation, number of patents filed, and educational attainment. The more freedom there is, the more information, the more choice, and ultimately, more power for each individual.
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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.
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The lesson I learned is that sometimes the task you have at hand needs all of your concentration and focus.
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Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
