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  • Binyavanga Wainaina We are a mixed up people. We have mixed up ways of naming, too... When my father's brothers and sisters first went to colonial schools, they had to produce a surname. They also had to show they were good Christians by adopting a western name. They adopted my grandfather's name as surname. Wainaina.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Salvador Dali We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.
    Salvador Dali
    Spanish painter (1904 - 1989)
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  • William James We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Doug Horton We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • Anne Sullivan Macy We are bothered a good deal by people who assume the responsibility of the world when God is neglectful.
    Anne Sullivan Macy
    American teacher (1866 - 1936)
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  • Abraham Kaplan We are caught up in a paradox, one which might be called the paradox of conceptualization. The proper concepts are needed to formulate a good theory, but we need a good theory to arrive at the proper concepts.
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Ann Veneman We are doing everything we can to protect the food supply. And I can tell you that we're making decisions based upon sound science and good public policy, given the circumstances that we are now in.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • W. H. Auden We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Eric Hoffer We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bernard Arnault We are really very lucky to have so many fantastic brands. But to grow them we should not be too much in a hurry. They are growing fast, but they have to grow accordingly to the market and to the capacity we have to deliver good products.
    Bernard Arnault
    French businessman (1949 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre We are tainted by modern philosophy which has taught us that all is good, whereas evil has polluted everything and in a very real sense all is evil, since nothing is in its proper place.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Arthur Middleton We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Bil Keane We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
    Bil Keane
    American cartoonist (1922 - 2011)
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  • Madame Dorothé Deluzy We believe at once in evil, we only believe in good upon reflection. Is this not sad?
    Madame Dorothé Deluzy
    French actress
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  • Billy Al Bengston We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.
    Billy Al Bengston
    American artist and sculptor (1934 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Adam Osborne We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Edward Dahlberg We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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