Quotes with good-will

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  • John Dryden Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Epilogue to Constantine the Great
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Saunders Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
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  • Buzz Aldrin Bringing an asteroid back to Earth? What's that have to do with space exploration? If we were moving outward from there, and an asteroid is a good stopping point, then fine. But now it's turned into a whole planetary defense exercise at the cost of our outward exploration.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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  • Brendan Fraser Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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  • Lord George Byron But as to women, who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love, their virtue, beauty, education, but form good housekeepers, to breed a nation.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Andy Hertzfeld But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
    Andy Hertzfeld
    American software engineer and innovator (1953 - )
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  • Hartley Coleridge But what is Freedom? Rightly understood,
    A universal license to be good.
    Liberty
    Hartley Coleridge
    English poet, biographer and writer (eldest son of S. T. Coleridge) (1796 - 1849)
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Socrates By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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