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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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“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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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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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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“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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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”— H. L. Mencken
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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.”— Karl Marx
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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.”— Jackie Kennedy
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“The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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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“On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.”— George Orwell
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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank
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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”— Winston Churchill
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“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”— Thomas Aquinas
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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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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.”— Blaise Pascal
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“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.”— Michel de Montaigne