Quotes with good-will

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  • Barbara Jordan A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • George Bernard Shaw A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Thomas Carlyle A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • T. S. Eliot A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Pat Caddell A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
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  • John Morley A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Raymond Chandler A really good detective never gets married.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Edward Noyes Westcott A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.
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  • Robert Graves A remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good in spite of all the people who say he is very good.
    Robert Graves
    English poet, historical novelist, critic and classicist (1895 - 1985)
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  • Brad Feld A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Bruce Cockburn A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
    Bruce Cockburn
    Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (1945 - )
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  • Bob Hope A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • C. S. Lewis A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Thomas Paine A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bernard Meltzer A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.
    Bernard Meltzer
    American professor (1916 - 1998)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu A virtuous and well-disposed person, like a good metal, the more he is fired, the more he is fined; the more he is opposed, the more he is approved: wrongs may well try him, and touch him, but cannot imprint in him any false stamp.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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