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  • Sir John Vanbrugh Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself.
    Sir John Vanbrugh
    English architect and dramatist (1664 - 1726)
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  • Bob Hope Virus is a Latin word used by doctors to mean 'your guess is as good as mine.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bill Hader Voices are a good way to get in and out of things. James Carville constantly calls my wife to say I'll be home late. Mandy Patinkin and Al Pacino call to get me restaurant reservations.
    Bill Hader
    American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and director (1978 - )
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh War begets quiet, quiet idleness, idleness disorder, disorder ruin; likewise ruin order, order virtue, virtue glory, and good fortune.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • George Orwell War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Mark Twain Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Fred A. Allen Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Adam Arkin We all look to have transcendent experiences that lift us out of the everyday, and fear is a good one. But, I think it's the same reason why people want to laugh their heads off.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Jean de la Fontaine We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Salvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • William James We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Doug Horton We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Kaplan We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Ann Veneman We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • W. H. Auden We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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