Quotes with good-will

Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 2778.

  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Thomas Jefferson In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bradley A. Smith Incumbents don't like it, but political competition is a good thing. Incumbents usually outspend challengers by better than 3 to 1. Super PACs, which tend to support challengers, have nullified some of this advantage.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
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  • Bobby Jindal India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Baba Kalyani Indians have very good engineering capabilities, and that is why, if an industry focuses on innovation, you will have a far greater chance of success, rather than the model which is based on just being a production machine.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Anatole France Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Eric Burdon Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.
    Eric Burdon
    English singer (1941 - )
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  • Henry Miller Instead of asking - ''How much damage will the work in question bring about?'' why not ask - ''How much good? How much joy?''
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, But quickly to see how to make them good.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Anne Bradstreet Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.
    Anne Bradstreet
    English American poet (1612 - 1672)
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  • Friedrich von Schlegel Irony is the form of paradox. Paradox is what is good and great at the same time.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Bill Budge It always helps to be a good programmer. It is important to like computers and to be able to think of things people would want to do with their computers.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Campbell Brown It comes down to what your priorities are, and if public education is about kids, then every decision we make should be focused on the question of 'Is this good for a child?' And that should be the driving focus and the priority when we decide what our policies should be and what our laws should be.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Henry Miller It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi It feels very, very good to make a film freely, to work without having to wait years for script approval, without looking over your shoulder.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Arthur Helps It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
    Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean
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  • Gerard De Nerval It has been rightly said that nothing is unimportant, nothing powerless in the universe; a single atom can dissolve everything, and save everything! What terror! There lies the eternal distinction between good and evil.
    Gerard De Nerval
    French writer, poet (1808 - 1855)
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  • Mark Twain It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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