974 private quotes tagged good

“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.” — Steve Jobs

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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” — Albert Camus

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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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“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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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” — William Blake

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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.” — George Orwell

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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

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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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“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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“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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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” — Aldous Huxley

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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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