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  • Barry Ritholtz Google's founders have had a good eye for imagining what technologies will be significant in the near future. No one asked Google to develop self-driving cars, but it helped them with street views for Google Maps.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Beth Ditto Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Napoleon Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Winston Churchill Great and good are seldom the same man.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ivan Boesky Greed is all right, by the way. I think greed is healthy. You can be greedy and still feel good about yourself.
    Ivan Boesky
    American stock trader (1937 - )
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Greed is good. Sex is easy. Youth is forever.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Ben Horowitz Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Elizabeth Janeway Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?
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  • Calvin Harris Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Samuel Butler Half the vices which the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderated use rather than total abstinence.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Fred A. Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • John Bunyan Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Barry Sanders Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job, being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football, I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage, be a happy father.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Ingrid Bergman Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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