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Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years...

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Taking away the good is even more lethal than pointing out the bad.

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Gloria SteinemMy Life on the Road

I don't know why you use a fancy French word like detente when there's a good English phrase for it ...

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One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and...

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I am suggesting that as we go through life, we 'accentuate the positive.' I am asking that we look a...

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Every good citizen adds to the strength of a nation.

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get ou...

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Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religio...

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The word 'success' - who's defining it? It's about whether or not it makes me feel good. Four billio...

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'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to th...

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I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

In the family, in interpersonal relationships, even in friendship, faith is tremendously important. ...

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The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based ...

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I wouldn't say there's a need for the Spice Girls, but I'd say there's a place for the Spice Girls. ...

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It turns out that if you optimize the performance of a car and of an airplane, they are very far awa...

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I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitud...

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Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

I feel my dad, I still feel his love, and I still love him. I would do anything to have him back, bu...

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Suppose, and the facts leave us quite free to suppose it, suppose that the latent sapiens in us succ...

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H. G. WellsYou Can't Be Too Careful

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more fool...

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When I think, where did I laugh the most, where did I eat the most, where did I just feel good all t...

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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can i...

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Good can be radical; evil can never be radical, it can only be extreme, for it possesses neither dep...

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Hannah ArendtEichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil

The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst dise...

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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an indepen...

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Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep.

I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of pray...

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You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in f...

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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 tim...

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Because you are neither an angel nor a god. I am quite aware that your actions have been prompted by...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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The conclusion of things is the good. The good is, in other words, the conclusion at which all thing...

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In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fi...

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The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I ...

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I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't ...

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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.

A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a...

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Working away from my husband for long periods is good and bad. It stops us taking each other for gra...

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There's no good way to waste your time. Wasting time is just wasting time.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental an...

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Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it...

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The United States is the world's best hope, but if you fetter her in the interests and quarrels of o...

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The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everythi...

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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me go...

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Nobody scarce doth any good, yet they all agree in praising those who do. Indeed, it is strange that...

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The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author hims...

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The violent quarrel between the abstractionists and the surrealists seems to me quite unnecessary. A...

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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most...

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Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

Good-humor makes all things tolerable.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

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To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall reall...

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I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adve...

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There are no morals about technology at all. Technology expands our ways of thinking about things, e...

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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

Love of God," he said slowly, searching for words, "is not alwaysthe same as love of good, I wish it...

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It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good ...

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The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

To think well and to consent to obey someone giving good advice are the same thing.

I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and th...

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It is not good to have a rule of many.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

One thing I've learned through all the ups and downs is that if you're doing things right, then you ...

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My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death i...

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I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too o...

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Of my old tendency to overdo the dedication and deface the title page with florid compliments and ob...

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Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's ...

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One of these days the people of Louisiana are going to get good government - and they aren't going t...

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I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...

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The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shall...

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I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of...

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There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about h...

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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the wat...

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a...

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If there is such a thing as good leadership, it is to give a good example. I have to do so for all t...

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People can be only divided into good or bad; their race, religion, nationality don't matter.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Artists are indeed unlikely to be good, goodness would silence them.

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Iris MurdochMetaphysics as a Guide to Morals

I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave e...

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I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do som...

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Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished b...

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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...

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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think tha...

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Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look...

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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

I started modeling at 28. I'm 5-feet-7 1/2, and I never went on a diet. I followed what my doctor to...

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The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that the...

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