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If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary on...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, n...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil ...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

It was granted me to carry away from my prison years on my bent back, which nearly broke beneath its...

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Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

You can do anything and be a star. You can dress like however you want, and you can do whatever you ...

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It's good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don't really...

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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.

Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want ...

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Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is onl...

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It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.

And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feeling...

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Alexandre DumasThe Count of Monte Cristo

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Good wishes alone will not ensure peace.

French Yemeni relations are strong and good, they are relations depending on friendship and cooperat...

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Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can writ...

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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - t...

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There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into se...

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We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human ...

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Circumstances makes a thing poison or nectar. There is nothing absolute good or bad.

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No.

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, not...

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I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a...

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Finally, a good prosecutor knows that her job is to enforce the law without fear or favor. Likewise,...

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Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we ...

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Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the ...

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As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will...

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In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the jud...

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Those who say we should dismantle the role of Poet Laureate altogether, the trick they miss is that ...

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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archive...

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Parenting involves two separate activities. You have to change your child in that you need to educat...

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The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

My fitness is good. I hope to improve it even further during training.

...But first appearances are often deceptive. Not everything monstrous looking is evil, and not ever...

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There's good movies and there's bad movies. The genres are never dead, it's just about how to apply ...

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Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art a...

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My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through pol...

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That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single...

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I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good...

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Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether ...

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Good necessitates evil.

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Ann LeckieAncillary Justice

Marrying into money was not a good thing for me.

I think we all want to really live good lives, and we all really want to have a healthy planet, alth...

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Quite frankly, I didn't become an actor to become a movie star. I have never dreamed about being the...

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Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and...

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in ...

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Your problem is how you are going to spend this one odd and precious life you have been issued. Whet...

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Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after.

A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first c...

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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it ex...

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Anyone who's a chef, who loves food, ultimately knows that all that matters is: 'Is it good? Does it...

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The fact that over 50 per cent of the residents of Toronto are not from Canada, that is always a goo...

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By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and e...

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It is as inhuman to be totally good as it is to be totally evil.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of t...

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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individua...

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The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you...

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If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You th...

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I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have r...

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I like Aurora, 'Sleeping Beauty,' because she's just sleeping and looking pretty and waiting for boy...

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David Ben-Gurion understood that the public's trust is given to a leader in order to lead, determine...

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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish we...

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It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

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AristotleSelected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their governm...

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At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative...

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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...

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The greatest luxury of riches is that they enable you to escape so much good advice.

It is only goodness which gives extra...

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremel...

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Arthur MachenThe White People and Other Weird Stories

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh,...

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When you're an adult, when times are good, entire years go by in what feels like the space of one se...

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One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing abo...

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For me, I just like to cut out bread. I like to keep the good carbs in my diet - I love pasta and It...

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The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, ...

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In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between ...

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An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery a...

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To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call ‘human nature,’ the open secret...

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Man’s life, as required by his nature, is not the life of a mindless brute, of a looting thug or a m...

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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is t...

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Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the sour...

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The anti-mind is the anti-life.

A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values t...

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A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to prot...

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Non-thinking is an act of annihilation, a wish to negate existence, an attempt to wipe out reality. ...

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There is a morality of reason, a morality proper to man, and Man’s Life is its standard of value.All...

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To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent t...

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That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ i...

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Life is a process of self-sustaining and self-generated action. If an organism fails in that action,...

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Are you seeking to know what is wrong with the world? All the disasters that have wrecked your world...

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Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice — and the alternative hi...

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