Quotes 2341 till 2360 of 2785.
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They proved that if you quit smoking, it will prolong your life. What they haven't proved is that a prolonged life is a good thing. I haven't seen the stats on that yet.
Source: Dark Poet -
They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a both, but it does you good.
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They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Source: Notes on the Next War (1935) -
Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.
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Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
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This book is written with the conviction that there are no 'good' or 'bad' people, no matter how offensive or eccentric to society they may seem... You and I didn't design people. God designed people. What I am trying to do is to discover why God included humans in Universe.
Source: Critical Path (1981)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.
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This fact lays on us - so long as the maintenance of good relations with Russia seems to us worth an effort - the duty of satisfying Russia that she has no need to fear any invasion of her sphere of interests on Germany's part.
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This is the way of peace: Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
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This laudable quality is commonly known by the name of Manners and Good-breeding, and consists in a Fashionable Habit, acquir'd by Precept and Example, of flattering the Pride and Selfishness of others, and concealing our own with Judgment and Dexterity.
Source: The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 69 -
This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.
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This sounds like my autobiography, but I thought this would be a good time to sound off about myself, as I think that I have been silent too long about my views and opinions.
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This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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Thou hast a voice, great Mountain, to repeal. Large codes of fraud and woe; not understood by all, but which the wise, and great, and good interpret, or make felt, or deeply feel.
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Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
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