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We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us ...

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What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the a...

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I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be ...

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You want to live in a world where someone is good or bad. Where you either hate them or love them. B...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a ...

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Trevor NoahBorn a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

I'm very conscious about putting good food into my body. Years ago, I went to see an amazing healer ...

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Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even mo...

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Developing a good work ethic is key. Apply yourself at whatever you do, whether you're a janitor or ...

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A smart model is a good model.

It seems that, once introduced into public life, evil easily perpetuates itself, whereas good is alw...

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Tzvetan TodorovThe Fragility of Goodness: Why Bulgaria's Jews Survived the Holocaust

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is goo...

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Atât de mare e puterea adevărului care, precum binele, se răspândește de la sine.

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Umberto EcoNumele trandafirului

In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), killing people is the usual solution to the so-called ...

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To light a candle is to cast a shadow...

The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the ac...

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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street,...

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My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the...

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In great hearts the cruelty of life gives birth to good.

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge i...

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He must have stood there for a long time, making a list of all the terrible things he had done—almos...

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One may, in a case of exigency, introduce the reader in to a nuptial chamber, not into a virginal ch...

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Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, i...

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I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy...

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What's David's role? David looks good, that's what David does. David looks good, and I'm the funny o...

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I suppose a good director is like a teacher. I think that someone like David Cronenberg was very muc...

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It's amazing to me that Glenn Beck can be on the cover of 'Time,' and there can be a whole article a...

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I'm just looking as always for something that's stimulating and I hope to find a good story that's a...

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In principle, I think the idea of rewarding a good effort is interesting, but movies are generally d...

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Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or ...

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The food in the House of Commons is fairly good. The cafe in Portcullis House is really very high qu...

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Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific know...

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I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what sui...

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My children came out as individuals in their own right. They were not my products. They had their ow...

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I'm frugal. I'm not a very acquisitive woman. I never waste food. If you prepare your own food, you ...

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I have too much product, and I'm trying to rein it in and sell more of my main collection. I wish yo...

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I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing...

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When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad time...

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The best is the enemy of good.

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VoltairePhilosophical Dictionary

But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evi...

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VoltairePoem Upon the Lisbon Disaster

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as...

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Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what t...

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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with ...

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Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.

wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as...

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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in par...

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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbias...

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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of b...

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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace...

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The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, pe...

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It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive as...

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I don't learn so good, no matter how good the teacher is.

Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal...

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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil ...

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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Technology has a great advantage in that we are capable of creating dinosaurs and show them on the s...

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You don't wake up one morning and say, 'Today is going to be a comedy day.' And the next day, 'Today...

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An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.

And again, though we cannot prove, we feel, that we are deathless. We perceive that life is not like...

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Will DurantThe Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional ...

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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell i...

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We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a ho...

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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the sc...

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I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...

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Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with H...

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I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost...

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Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right.

Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are ba...

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This is at the heart of all good education, where the teacher asks students to think and engages the...

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Inspiring scenes of people taking the future of their countries into their own hands will ignite gre...

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Good-nature, or what is often considered as such, is the most selfish of all the virtues: it is nine...

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William HazlittThe Round Table; Characters Of Shakespeare's Plays

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of...

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Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring o...

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William McDonoughCradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things

No man is good enough to be another's master.

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

The idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

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William SaroyanSons Come and Go

My dad was good with actions.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo...

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...

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The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fo...

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The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth fo...

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The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of ...

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I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If ...

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All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty goo...

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When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. Yo...

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