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“Great and good are seldom the same man.”— Winston Churchill
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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.”— Carl Sagan
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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.”— Sun Tzu
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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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“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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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”— Albert Camus
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“I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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“How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”— Anne Frank
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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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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.”— Henry David Thoreau
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“Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.”— Plato
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“Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.”— Plato
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“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.”— Thomas Carlyle
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“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.”— Bertrand Russell
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“The good is the beautiful.”— Plato
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“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.”— Ernest Hemingway
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“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”— H. L. Mencken
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“The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”— Bertrand Russell
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“There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.”— Mahatma Gandhi
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“The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.”— Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”— Oscar Wilde