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How little praise warms out of a man the good that is in him, as the sneer of contempt which he feels is unjust chill the ardor to excel.
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How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
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How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
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However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do you if you do not act upon them?
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However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.
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Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
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Humanity could only have survived and flourished if it held social and personal values that transcended the urges of the individual, embodying selfish desires - and these stem from the sense of a transcendent good.
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Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
Contact (1985) Ch. 3 -
Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television.
Contact (1985) Ch. 20 (p. 359) -
Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
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I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
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I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
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