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  • Robert Anthony If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
    Robert Anthony
    American psychologist and self-help writer
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  • Abbie Hoffman If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Nelson Mandela If you see something good, give a compliment. If you see something wrong, offer your help.
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Buddha Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Thornton T. Munger Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Betty Shabazz Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.
    Betty Shabazz
    American educator and civil rights advocate (1934 - 1997)
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  • George Orwell Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Addison Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Socrates My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you’ll be happy; if not, you’ll become a philosopher.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • H.G. Wells One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thorstein Veblen The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods
    Thorstein Veblen
    Norwegian-American economist and sociologist (1857 - 1929)
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  • Voltaire The best is the enemy of the good.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Linus Pauling The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.
    Linus Pauling
    American scientist (1901 - 1994)
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  • George Gallup The common people of America display a quality of good common sense which is heartening to anyone who believes in the democratic process.
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