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  • Igor Stravinsky A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
    ― Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • John Mason Brown A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.
    ― John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Kenneth Tynan A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
    ― Kenneth Tynan
    English theater critic and writer (1927 - 1980)
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  • Ben Horowitz A good engineering interview will include some set of difficult problems to solve. It might even require that the candidate write a short program. In addition, it will test the candidate's knowledge of the tools she uses in great depth.
    ― Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
    ― Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • A. Brisbane A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
    ― A. Brisbane
     
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  • Bo Bennett A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
    ― Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something.
    ― Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Source: Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    ― Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Frank Crane A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends.
    ― Frank Crane
    American actor
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  • John Milton A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.
    ― John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    ― Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Anton Chekhov A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.
    ― Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Josh Billings A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.
    ― Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
    ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
    ― Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Abraham Lincoln A Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    ― Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ezra Pound A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
    ― Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alva Myrdal A great amount has been talked and written about what constitutes a sufficient balance and what really is meant by the concepts of 'balance' and 'deterrence'.
    ― Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
    ― Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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