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The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
― Henry Ward Beecher
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
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The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.
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The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.
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The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.
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The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you.
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The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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The kind of people that love 'The Rocketeer' are the kind of people that love good storytelling and innocence and a better world, so to speak, so they're almost always nice people to bump into.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The lead singer for Deerhunter, Bradford Cox... I don't like saying people are geniuses or whatever, but I just think that dude is so good at every single thing he does. He stays within his genre, but I think he does so well experimenting with stuff.
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The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out.
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The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
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The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
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The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.
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The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
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The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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