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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Walter Lippmann The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Walter Lippmann The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • George Eliot The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Carroll Quigley The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Harry S. Truman The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race, creed or nationality, will always point in the right direction.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Casey Stengel The key to good management is keeping the nine guys who hate your guts away from the nine guys who haven't made up their minds.
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    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Molière The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Billy Zane The mug is a tool. My ace in the hole. To have looks is the bonus on top of what motivates me to be an actor. Not to realize they're an asset would be counterproductive to the cause; they serve the common good.
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  • Lord Chesterfield The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Carter G. Woodson The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Bessie Smith There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.
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  • Benjamin Franklin Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen R. Covey To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you'll never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Bill Bryson We forget just how painfully dim the world was before electricity. A candle, a good candle, provides barely a hundredth of the illumination of a single 100 watt light bulb.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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