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Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘good’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I’m kind of a good girl – and I’m not. I’m a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I’m a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That’s what the stories…
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“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.” -Guillaume Apollinaire
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“A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.” -Bo Bennett
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“I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.” -Woody Allen
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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” -George Eliot
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“Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.” -Orson Welles
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“You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.” -Howard Koch
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“Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over people and circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the…
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“No good movie is too long and no bad movie is short enough.” -Roger Ebert
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“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.” -Alanis Morissette
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“Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.” -Richard P. Feynman
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“You built a factory out there, good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on the roads that the rest of us paid for. You hired workers that the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces…
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“I don’t believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.” -Tom Landry
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“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.” -Arthur Ashe
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“I don’t believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can’t sit still.” -Ashton Kutcher
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“Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.” -John Derek
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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” -Plutarch
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“I think it’s been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.” -Rene Descartes
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” -Aldous Huxley
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“God never made a promise that was too good to be true.” -Dwight L. Moody
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“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” -Irving Berlin
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“My Alma mater was books, a good library… I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.” -Malcolm X
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.” -Howard Aiken
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“Never call an accountant a credit to his profession a good accountant is a debit to his profession.” -Charles Lyell
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“At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.” -Thomas Tusser
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“Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.” -Andrea Corr
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“Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.” -George Jean Nathan
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“Jogging is very beneficial. It’s good for your legs and your feet. It’s also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed.” -Charles M. Schulz
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“Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don’t succeed, you won’t be in your profession for long. In our society, it’s not about good or bad. It’s about who’s on top.” -Chili Davis
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“Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.” -Harry S. Truman
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“I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.” -Anne Frank
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“It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.” -Ray Bradbury
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“No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one’s sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one’s character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.” -William James
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“Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.” -Mariska Hargitay
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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” -Stephen Hawking
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“If it’s a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” -Alfred Hitchcock
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“You know when something feels so good but you’re afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says, Congratulations, you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like, I’m just doing what little I can with what little I have.” -Vin Diesel
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“I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good.” -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.” -Casey Stengel
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“Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” -Peter Drucker
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“And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.” -Mackenzie Astin
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“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.” -Eric Cantona
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“It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.” -Benito Mussolini
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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” -Sun Tzu
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“Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn’t talk much. I never met him.” -Mike Tyson
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“Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake – a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.” -E. Stanley Jones
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“The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.” -Rick Perry
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“Listen there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.” -e. e. cummings
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“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
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“Destiny is a good thing to accept when it’s going your way. When it isn’t, don’t call it destiny call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.” -Joseph Heller
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“It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.” -Konrad Lorenz
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“I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It’s good time management.” -Michelle Williams
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“All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don’t let anybody crush your dream.” -Patti LaBelle
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“Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.” -Diogenes
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“A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.” -Paul Dudley White
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“You know, when you really connect with the instrument and everything just comes out on an emotional level very naturally through your playing. That’s, you know, a great night. And I think the reason I love touring so much is you’re chasing that high around all the time, trying to have another good night.” -Slash
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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.” -Francis Bacon
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“Surround yourself with good people. Whether they’re the best or not, people are capable of learning if they’ve got good hearts and they’re good souls.” -Kid Rock
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“Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.” -Thomas Merton
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“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” -Marianne Williamson
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“There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” -Ansel Adams
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“My New Year’s resolution is to stick to a good workout plan that will keep me healthy and happy.” -James Lafferty
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“For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing.” -Simon Wiesenthal
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“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you’re free.” -Ray Manzarek
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“Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they’re honest about everything.” -Chuck Klosterman
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“I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they’re good or there because they’re lucky.” -Katharine Hepburn
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“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” -Mary McLeod Bethune
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“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.’” -Jim Carrey
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“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.” -James Truslow Adams
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“If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?” -Chanakya
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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” -H. L. Mencken
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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.” -Charles Darwin
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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‘Too much of a good thing can be wonderful’.” -Warren Buffett
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“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice… is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.” -Nina Simone
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“A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.” -Frank Crane
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“One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
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“Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another’s place.” -Neil Kurshan
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“As people do better, they start voting like Republicans – unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” -Karl Rove
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“Inspiration is one thing and you can’t control it, but hard work is what keeps the ship moving. Good luck means, work hard. Keep up the good work.” -Kevin Eubanks
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“I don’t think Christmas is necessarily about things. It’s about being good to one another, it’s about the Christian ethic, it’s about kindness.” -Carrie Fisher
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“The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” -Fred Astaire
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“I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.” -Gordon Ramsay
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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright…
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“If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.” -Thomas J. Watson
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“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” -Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.” -Sivananda
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“No man is good enough to govern any woman without her consent.” -Susan B. Anthony
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“I wasn’t in school often enough to really belong to a ‘clique,’ but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we’re surrounded by, so I…
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“When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.” -William J. Clinton
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“The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.” -Tony Dungy
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“Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.” -Henri Frederic Amiel
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“Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.” -Hannah Arendt
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“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It’s not enough, but it helps.” -Dick Gregory
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“A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.” -Jesse Jackson
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“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” -Liberty Hyde Bailey
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“I question myself every day. That’s what I still find motivating about this. I don’t have the answers, I don’t pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.” -Andre Agassi
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“Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.” -Adam Sandler
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“Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman – or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.” -George Burns
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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” -Thomas Aquinas
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“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both.” -Tryon Edwards
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“Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There’s still time, but not a lot,…
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“A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.” -Sallust
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“The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.” -Niccolo Machiavelli
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“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” -Andy Warhol
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“I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences.” -Sonia Sotomayor
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“It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.” -Chief Joseph
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“It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.” -Quentin Crisp
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“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?” -E. M. Forster
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“A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.” -Miguel de Unamuno
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“Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.” -David Hume
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“There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.” -Sean Lennon
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“I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make…
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“Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.” -Ted Williams
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“A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.” -Guy Kawasaki
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“The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.” -Abraham Maslow
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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“To me, to be a conservative means to conserve the good parts of America and to conserve our Constitution.” -Ron Paul
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“Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.” -George Washington Carver
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“If you don’t think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD’s and burn them.” -Bill Hicks
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“To be a good loser is to learn how to win.” -Carl Sandburg
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“The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” -Wendell Berry
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“Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.” -John Maynard Keynes
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“Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.” -Adriana Lima
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“All married couples should learn the art of battle as they should learn the art of making love. Good battle is objective and honest – never vicious or cruel. Good battle is healthy and constructive, and brings to a marriage the principles of equal partnership.” -Ann Landers
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“By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“My eyesight is not nearly as good. My hearing is probably going away. My memory is slipping too. But I’m still around.” -John Wooden
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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” -Martin Luther
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“It’s good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don’t think I can handle being here all the time, it’s pretty nutty.” -Johnny Depp
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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“You’re only as good as your last haircut.” -Fran Lebowitz
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“And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.” -Isaac Asimov
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“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.” -Hermann Hesse
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“A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement.” -James H. Douglas
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“A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.” -Maxim Gorky
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.” -Gail Godwin
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“This battle for ‘common-sense’ gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, ‘gun control’ legislation. Good news – if you’re a crook.” -Larry Elder
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“If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“In art the best is good enough.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other ‘gentleman’ stuff is a chess game, especially these days.” -Anna Kendrick
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“Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.” -Heraclitus
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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” -John Quincy Adams
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“Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man’s love.” -Euripides
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“People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.” -Peter Tosh
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“Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.” -Paul Hawken
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“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.” -Voltaire
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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’” -Steven Wright
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“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.” -Jane Austen
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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” -Rabindranath Tagore
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“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.” -Daniel Boone
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“When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.” -Edwin Booth
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“Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.” -Saint Francis de Sales
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“There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.” -Billy Graham
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“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” -Truman Capote
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“Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.” -William E. Simon
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“If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.” -Jesus Christ
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“When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.” -Jean Cocteau
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“In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.” -Lucille Ball
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“The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.” -John W. Gardner
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“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.” -Plato
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“When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.” -Will Rogers
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“I’d like to get four people who do cart wheels very good, and make a cart.” -Mitch Hedberg
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