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Do the thing you're good at. Not many people are lucky enough to be so good at something.

Good God, Keith.""Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of s...

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I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and t...

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Good government is the outcome of private virtue.

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all...

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It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all ou...

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A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people i...

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I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to he...

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With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use o...

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None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but licence.

Oh goodness infinite, goodness immense!That all this good of evil shall produce,And evil turn to goo...

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Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty ...

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The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck...

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Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go q...

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Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easi...

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In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth....

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A captain of the Navy ought to be a man of strong and well connected sense, with a tolerable good ed...

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I have sacrificed not only my favorite scheme of life, but the softer affections of the heart, and m...

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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. ...

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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. ...

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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. ...

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Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. ...

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Good words cool more than cold water.

People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for so...

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People, for reasons of their own, often fail to do things that would be good for them or good for so...

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The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all thin...

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Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really ...

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Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritio...

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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one, that has frightened and inspired us, s...

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...evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh ...

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized communit...

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As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and ...

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I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; a...

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John Stuart MillAn examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy

It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are we...

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So far as it depends on the course of this government, our relations of good will and friendship wil...

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Playing a bad guy is always a freeing experience, because you don't have the same envelope of restri...

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The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in phi...

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If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doin...

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The things that have always been important: to be a good man, to try to live my life the way God wou...

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You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good a...

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Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all

If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to ...

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I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'...

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Music is fun, but I'm an ice skater. I may sing songs and do shows, make movies and other things... ...

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Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle,...

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One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP a...

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You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to lo...

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The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and...

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Our goal is to desperately make the best products we can. We're not naive. We trust that if we're su...

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Apple's goal isn't to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to market good product...

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Perhaps I'd like to design cars, but I don't think I'd be much good at it.

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towa...

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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in whic...

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Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Being reliable is something. Being good.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Because sometimes people who seem goodend up being not as good as you might have hoped.

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...

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The "whole good" cannot be had, it would seem, without mustering all the strength of our inner life....

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

The "supreme good" and its attainment -- that is happiness. And joy is: response to happiness.

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Every act has both good and evil results. Every act in life yields pairs of opposites in its results...

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One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

Nately had a bad start. He came from a good family.

What a newspaper needs in its news, in its headlines, and on its editorial page is terseness, humor,...

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Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I hav...

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A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a ...

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No matter how devastating our struggles, disappointments, and troubles are, they are only temporary....

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A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.

Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgme...

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I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry.

My biggest blast-off hit was 'You Raise Me Up.' If you ever have a wedding or a funeral, it's a good...

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I love a good romantic comedy.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that ...

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I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results ...

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The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploratio...

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When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide t...

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The banner of the project is 'Casa de Colores.' Under that banner, I'm going to invite people to do ...

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As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time...

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I haven't any formal schedule, but I love to write in the morning, before breakfast. Sometimes the w...

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In the early '70s - a very good time for children's books and their authors - editors and publishers...

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As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of ev...

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When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake...

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I have pessimistic moments when I think I should go on a diet because people are paying money to see...

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Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behav...

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Actually, I had a lot of good people with me - my mother's sister did a lot of taking care of me, an...

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Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven...

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Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work...

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I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to ...

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And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas an...

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Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for th...

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Good sports facilities are a blessing.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarn...

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