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  • Carroll Quigley The West believes that man and the universe are both complex and that the apparently discordant parts of each can be put into a reasonably workable arrangement with a little good will, patience, and experimentation.
    Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time (1966)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Lao-Tzu The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Caleb Cushing The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Charles Dickens The word of a gentleman is as good as his bond; and sometimes better.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Thomas Paine The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Billy Dee Williams The world moves fast, but change isn't always a good thing when you got it right the first time around.
    Billy Dee Williams
    American actor, voice actor, and artist (1937 - )
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  • Andy Rooney The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Samuel Johnson The world will never be long without some good reason to hate the unhappy; their real faults are immediately detected, and if those are not sufficient to sink them into infamy, an additional weight of calumny will be super added.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Sydney Smith The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Samuel Butler The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Casey Stoner There are a lot of good guys that I race against, and that's what I enjoy the most.
    Casey Stoner
    Australian professional motorcycle racer (1985 - )
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  • Carine Roitfeld There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
    Carine Roitfeld
    French fashion editor (1954 - )
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  • Bianca Walkden There are a lot of kicks out there in taekwondo that are flashy, so I like all of those. My favourite is probably chop because I'm better at it than the others. But I like a good back kick if I can nail it well.
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  • Benjamin Booker There are a lot of really good skills you get from doing journalism - it completely changed my world and how I interact with other people.
    Benjamin Booker
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1989 - )
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  • Bernie Sanders There are a lot of smart honest, progressive people who I think can be good presidents.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bruce Dickinson There are a lot of stuff on the record that I am thinking is generic but actually it is just as good as everybody else who is putting stuff out at the time.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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