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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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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Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.
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The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.
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Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.
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When people assume that you're one way and you're not that way at all, it's hard.
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For me, the hardest thing in the world is how to start a book.
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When you're sick, nobody takes care of you like your mom.
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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.
