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  • Horace A good scare is worth more than good advice.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Basil of Caesarea A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
    Basil of Caesarea
    Greek bishop of Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia (330 - 379)
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  • Finley Peter Dunne Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • James Baldwin Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
    Dylan Thomas
    English poet (1914 - 1953)
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  • Adrian Edmondson From the stage I've seen people of all ages absolutely roaring at really good toilet humour.
    Adrian Edmondson
    British actor (1957 - )
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  • Shirley Temple Black Good luck needs no explanation.
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  • Benjamin Franklin If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Mays My voice, my likeness is my livelihood. That's it. I keep it simple. I pick good products.
    Billy Mays
    American television direct-response advertisement salesperson (1958 - 2009)
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  • Sun Tzu The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
    Sun Tzu
    Chinese general and strategist (544 - 496)
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming A bad system will beat a good person every time.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • Carl Sagan A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 14
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis A child should never even think about being a "good son." A parent decides that fate for the child. The parent encourages that. Not the child himself. And the perfect dad? I shudder at thinking what that may be.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who has never learned to walk.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Bernice Fitz-Gibbon A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
    Macys, Gimbels, and Me: How to Earn $90,000 a Year in Retail Advertising
    Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
    American advertising executive
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  • Horace A good and faithful judge ever prefers the honorable to the expedient.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you, and were helped by you, will remember you when forget-me-nots are withered. Carve your name on hearts, and not on marble
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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