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  • Candace Camp The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • William Hutton The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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  • Richard Dawkins The child has no way of knowing what's good information.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Earl Rochester The clog of all pleasure, the luggage of life, is the best can be said for a very good wife.
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • George Orwell The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ivan Illich The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
    Ivan Illich
    Austrian-American theologist, writer (1926 - 2002)
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the "good ol' days" must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Source: Year to Success
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bo Bennett The concept of the 'good ol' days' must be one of our society's biggest delusions, top reasons for depression, as well as most often used excuse for lack of success.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Adrian Cronauer The concept that you cannot own the airwaves has caused far more harm than good.
    Adrian Cronauer
    American air force radio personality during Vietnam War (1938 - 2018)
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  • William Hazlitt The confession of our failings is a thankless office. It savors less of sincerity or modesty than of ostentation. It seems as if we thought our weaknesses as good as other people's virtues.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Jean Paul The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Campbell Brown The consequences of substandard teaching go far beyond whether college or a good job is in reach. They affect earning potential, with implications throughout a person's life.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Edwin Markham The crest and crowning of all good, Life's final star, is Brotherhood.
    Edwin Markham
    American poet and editor (1852 - 1940)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Barry Ritholtz The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Buzz Aldrin The decision to go to the moon is now appreciated and associated with President Kennedy's speech, but somebody else had told him it was a good idea. It turned out to be a good commitment, but it was a unique situation.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Billy Corgan The deeper I get into my life as a musician, I'm discovering that it becomes less and less about other people, and more about what I want to do. And that's a good place to be.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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