Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
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We have not overthrown the divine right of kings to fall down for the divine right of experts.
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GIS is being influenced by and integrating with all kinds of new innovations such as faster computing, big data, the cloud, smart devices, and distributed processing.
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That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
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We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it's irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.
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I love Alton Brown's show 'Good Eats,' about the chemistry of food. It's really thoughtful.
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The best thing to spend on your children is your time.
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Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.
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Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.
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Metaphor is halfway between the unintelligible and the common place.
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If the Tenth Amendment were still taken seriously, most of the federal government's present activities would not exist. That's why no one in Washington ever mentions it.
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You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.
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I was being brought up on peasant stories; my mother came from Europe and she'd been a peasant and that was the area where the Frankensteins and the Draculas came from and it was entertainment for the people. Nobody had TV, and that was the way peasants would entertain themselves, by telling these stories.
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Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
