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  • Benjamin Franklin A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg A clever child brought up with a foolish one can itself become foolish. Man is so perfectible and corruptible he can become a fool through good sense.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Sydney Smith A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Malcolm Bradbury A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.
    Malcolm Bradbury
    English author and academic (1932 - 2000)
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  • Truman Capote A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • W. H. Auden A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Orson Welles A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Albert Camus A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich A free-enterprise economy depends only on markets, and according to the most advanced mathematical macroeconomic theory, markets depend only on moods: specifically, the mood of the men in the pinstripes, also known as the Boys on the Street. When the Boys are in a good mood, the market thrives; when they get scared or sullen, it is time for each one of us to look into the retail apple business.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Douglas Macarthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bela Karolyi A good 80 percent of the vault is still physical and another percentage of it, 20, 25 percent is mental. Mental is always the mental strength, the confidence building up to that contest or repetition, practice, practice, and practice.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Pedro Calderón de la Barca A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
    Pedro Calderón de la Barca
    Spanish playwright (1600 - 1681)
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  • Bruce Davison A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
    Bruce Davison
    American actor and director (1946 - )
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  • Billy Corgan A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper A good book is the best of friends.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • John Milton A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oswald Chambers A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
    Oswald Chambers
    Scottish preacher, writer (1874 - 1917)
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  • Blanka Vlasic A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.
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