Quotes with good-fortune

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  • Basil Hume Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bill de Blasio Clearly, Mayor Bloomberg did some things right. I think he did a very good job on public health. He did a very good job on environment. I think he was right to achieve mayoral control of education. I don't think he then applied it the right way.
    Bill de Blasio
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Alexander McQueen Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.
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  • Bo Burnham Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop's another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you're talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It's like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
    Bo Burnham
    American comedian, musician, actor and poet (1990 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Commissions add up, taxes are a big drag, margin ain't cheap. A good accountant costs money as well. The math on this one is obvious, yet investors often fail to recognize it: Keep your costs low and your turnover lower, and you will win in the end.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Will Rogers Communism is like prohibition, it is a good idea, but it won't work.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise ;in statesmanship.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Milton Friedman Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.
    Milton Friedman
    American economist (1912 - 2006)
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  • Peter de Vries Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
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  • Bobby Jindal Congress did a good thing back in 1995 in passing the Deep Water Royalty Relief Act. That act did a simple thing. It provided automatic royalty relief for new leases for 5 years in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal Conservative ideas don't just sound good. They actually work. That's the secret of our success.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Barrett Foa Cyndi Lauper is really good at talking to you about normal things. It's strange to be in the presence of a big celebrity like that. You want to make these connections and say things related to being a fan. It's not as interesting for them. She's amazing at making small talk without it seeming small.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Bryce Harper D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Adam Clarke Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
    Adam Clarke
    British Methodist theologian (1760 - 1832)
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