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  • Bertrand Russell The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • William Blake The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Edward F. Halifax The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Napoleon Hill The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barton Seaver The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
    Barton Seaver
    American author and chef (1979 - )
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  • Billy Campbell The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Berry Wendell The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Blake Anderson The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
    Blake Anderson
    American actor, comedian and producer (1984 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Oscar Wilde The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Santayana The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Machiavelli The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Mark Twain The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Betty Dodson The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
    Betty Dodson
    American sex educator (1929 - )
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  • William Arthur Ward The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Confucius The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Alighieri Dante The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof, shit detector. This is the writer's radar and all great writers have had it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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