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  • Alan Thicke We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor and songwriter (1947 - 2016)
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  • Alan Thicke We look for opportunities to play together including basketball, tennis, swimming, riding bikes and touch football. I try to provide a loving environment where we can play. I think that's good on so many levels - emotionally, for family interactions and, of course, physically.
    Alan Thicke
    Canadian actor, songwriter, comedian, writer and television host (1947 - 2016)
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  • David Gemmell We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.
    Lord of the Silver Bow (2005)
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Maria Weston Chapman We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.
    Maria Weston Chapman
    American abolitionist (1806 - 1885)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bill Richardson We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Graham Greene We mustn't complain too much of being comedians - it's an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed - that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men.
    Graham Greene
    English writer (1904 - 1991)
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  • Aldous Huxley We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Charles Kingsley We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they are about religion, politics, farming, trade, law, or medicine, they are the message of Christ, the maker of all things - the teacher of all truth.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Chimamanda Adichie We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.
    We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • Don DeLillo We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming.
    White Noise (2011) 32
    Don DeLillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Mother Teresa We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Andy Wachowski We thought we'd write a good script for women, giving them the fun roles that generally men get.
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  • Carrie Fisher We treat beauty like an accomplishment, and that is insane. Everyone in L.A. says, 'Oh, you look good,' and you listen for them to say you've lost weight. It's never 'How are you?' or 'You seem happy!'
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Black Kettle We want to take good tidings home to our people, that they may sleep in peace.
    Black Kettle
    Native Indian Cheyenne chief (1803 - 1868)
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  • Bonnie Tyler We were brought up Protestant, and I went to church three times a day on a Sunday. My parents weren't Bible-bashers, but we all have a strong belief in God and a strong faith. We had a huge garden; our house was a bit like a scene from 'The Good Life.' I think Mam and Dad had it really hard, bringing up a big family on very little.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Bubba Smith We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.
    Bubba Smith
    American professional football player (1945 - )
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