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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• If you would be good, first believe that you are bad.

  Epictetus

  Believe, Would Be, Firsts

  "The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments".

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• Be good to yourself. Listen to your body, to your heart. We're very hard on ourselves, and we're always feeling like we're not doing enough. It's a terribly hard job.

  Marcia Wallace

  Jobs, Heart, Feelings

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• But we are not in the world to be good but to change it.

  Edward Bond

  World

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• I wanted to be good but I wasn't sure if I was prepared

  Leila Aboulela

  Wanted, Prepared, Ifs

  Leila Aboulela (2015). “Minaret”, p.145, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's like there's a moment that happens in baseball, and when it happens, I do everything to concentrate. When you do that, it can be good.

  Miguel Cabrera

  Baseball, Moments, Happens

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• Good education has got to be good entertainment.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Entertainment, Good Education

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• Believe me when I say that Bill Clinton's second term will be good for business. My business.

  Mark Russell

  Business, Believe, Bills

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• After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Belief

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• There is a lot of focus on TV, in magazines...about being skinny and rich. I don't think those are that important. It's much more important for us to be good, honest people that try to help others and live the best life we can. That's where you get your satisfaction ultimately.

  Laura Evans

  Cancer, Helping Others, Thinking

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• The primary thing that any technology startup must do is build a product that's at least 10 times better at doing something than the current prevailing way of doing that thing. Two or three times better will not be good enough to get people to switch to the new thing fast enough or in large enough volume to matter.

  Ben Horowitz

  Technology, Two, People

  "HOROWITZ: How To Build A Great Culture At Your Startup" by Ben Horowitz, www.businessinsider.com. December 19, 2012.

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• Is it so good to be sad...? If it is... then I don't care to be good.

  Kentaro Yabuki

  Care, Ifs, Train Heartnet

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• Who knows what we’ll need to learn thirty years from now? We do know that we will need to be good at searching for information, collating it, and figuring out whether it is right or wrong.

  Sugata Mitra

  Years, Information, Needs

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• The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Giving, Joy

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• Who is so wise as to have a perfect knowledge of all things? Therefore trust not too much to thine own opinion, but be ready also to hear the opinion of others. Thought thine own opinion be good, yet if for the love of God thou foregoest it, and followest that of another, thou shalt the more profit thereby.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Love, Wise, Perfect

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• I never could be good when I was not happy.

  Julia Ward Howe

  Not Happy

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• You just can't make any movie and it will be good now. This is a really a difficult time to be in films.

  Keenen Ivory Wayans

  Comedy, Difficult Times, Film

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• We’re in the business of luxury and there’s nothing more luxurious than being good to people, being respectful of them.

  Phoebe Philo

  Luxury, People, Respectful

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• Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

  Gregory Maguire

  Struggle, Devil, Doe

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.250, Hachette UK

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• We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m.

  Juliet Mills

  Would Be, Tape, Hawaii

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• In a world where so much seems to be hidden by the smoke of falsity and moral degeneration, we Americans must grasp firmly the ideals which have made this country great. We must reaffirm the basic human values that have guided our forefathers. A revival of old-fashioned patriotism and a grateful acknowledgment of what our country has done for us would be good for all our souls.

  Manton S. Eddy

  Country, Grateful, Soul

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• Victor Mature was a big man; he had a great swagger. I liked him and I knew we'd be good together on screen.

  Esther Williams

  Men, Swag, Together

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• You just sort of let them go for a while, but it was time to have something done to my teeth. I'm glad. It's going to be good. Tom Cruise has braces now, too. I'm right in style.

  Faye Dunaway

  Style, Teeth, Done

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You exist but as a part inherent in a greater whole. Do not live as though you had a thousand years before you. The common due impends; while you live, and while you may, be good.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Years, May, Common

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1898). “Marcus Aurelius Antoninus to Himself: An English Translation with Introductory Study on Stoicism and the Last of the Stoics”

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• My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

  Albert Rosenfeld

  Men, Goodness, Instinct

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