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  • Barbara Cook New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
    Barbara Cook
    American actress and singer (1927 - 2017)
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  • Brandon Cruz New York and New Jersey are probably two of my favorite places to get really good surf in the summertime.
    Brandon Cruz
    American actor (1962 - )
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  • Anna Quindlen New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Elmer G. Letterman Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Adolf Galland Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Milan Kundera No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
    Source: De grap (1967)
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich No culture on earth outside of mid-century suburban America has ever deployed one woman per child without simultaneously assigning her such major productive activities as weaving, farming, gathering, temple maintenance, and tent-building. The reason is that full-time, one-on-one child-raising is not good for women or children.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Michael Moore No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Clare Boothe Luce No good deed goes unpunished.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • John Ruskin No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • W. H. Auden No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • C. Day Lewis No good poem, however confessional it may be, is just a self-expression. Who on earth would claim that the pearl expresses the oyster?
    C. Day Lewis
     
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  • Ezra Pound No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • O. Schreiner No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
    O. Schreiner
     
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  • John Ruskin No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • José Saramago No human being can achieve all he or she desires in this life except in dreams, so good night all.
    José Saramago
    Portugese writer (1922 - 2010)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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