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Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good.
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Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion.
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Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it.
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Odd how the erotic appeal has swung away from legs; today a smart girl takes her legs for granted and gets herself a good sweater.
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Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
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Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
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Of course I lie to people. But I lie altruistically - for our mutual good. The lie is the basic building block of good manners. That may seem mildly shocking to a moralist - but then what isn t?
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Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
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Of course when I started, it's not because I was such a brilliant actress. I didn't know I was good. I thought I was really bad. I was very shy. I was 18 and dreaming of becoming an actress.
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Of course you can use the products of science to do bad things, but you can use them to do good things, too.
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Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
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Of what use is the memory of facts, if not to serve as an example of good or of evil?
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Of what value is a mind when placed in the brain of a coward? If mind is a gift of God to man for his use, let him use it. A mind is not in use when doing no good.
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Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!
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Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.
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Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
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On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.
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On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time.
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
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