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• As the dog sprinted back, Jack said to the girl, "Sweetheart,honey, why do you have to be so hateful?" "Why not?" Ellie said. "It's not like being good ever got me anywhere.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Girl, Dog, Why Not

  Ilsa J. Bick (2011). “Ashes”, p.25, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life," Asher said. "A day is made of a thousand decisions, most small, some huge. With each decision you have the chance to work toward light, or sink toward darkness.

  Cate Tiernan

  Light, Decision, Darkness

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• I'm gonna be percy Jackson when I grow up," she told Hazel solemnly. Hazel Smiled and ruffled her hair. "That's a good thing to be, Julia." "Although," Frank said. "Frank Zhang would be good too.

  Rick Riordan

  Growing Up, Hair, Would Be

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• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Book, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off.

  Aristotle

  Believe, Desire, Cases

  Aristotle (2004). “The Metaphysics”, p.425, Penguin UK

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• But I have a problem with the term 'light'. I never in my life knew what to do with that. I know that people have mentioned on some occasions that 'Richter is all about light', and that 'the paintings have a special light', and I never knew what they were talking about. I was never interested in light. Light is there and you turn it on or you turn it off, with sun or without sun. I don't know what the 'problematic of light' is. I take it as a metaphor for a different quality, which is similarly difficult to describe. Good.

  Gerhard Richter

  Light, Talking, People

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• Beyonce is good-looking. Jennifer Lopez is good-looking. Madonna used to be good-looking.

  Simon Cowell

  Beauty, Looking Good, Used

  "Cowell Slams 'Past Beauty' Madonna" by wenn.com, January 20, 2004.

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• There is a big difference between being good and being great.

  Oscar Pistorius

  Differences, Bigs

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• Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

  Confucius

  Law, Practice, People

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• It might be good to open our eyes and see.

  Thomas Merton

  Eye, Vision, Might

  Thomas Merton (2010). “Zen and the Birds of Appetite”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.

  William James

  Memories, Eye, Passion

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.108, Nuvision Pubns

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• Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

  Seth Godin

  Important, Use, Might

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• The point is to be good-to be sensitive and sincere.

  J. B. Priestley

  Sincere, Sensitive, Goodness

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• Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.

  F. H. Bradley

  Anxiety, Worst, Knows

  'Appearance and Reality' (1893) preface (on pessimism)

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• The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Evil

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “The Dramatic Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.285

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• Those who stop being better stop being good.

  Oliver Cromwell

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• Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but decided quietly, soberly and on its own merits. We need less emotion and more thought.

  Richard Dawkins

  Hysteria, Needs, Cloning

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• Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them, and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavour to warp and spoil it to their turn.

  William Penn

  Men, Giving, Voting

  Thomas Clarkson, William Penn (1827). “Memoirs of the private and public life of William Penn: who settled the state of Pennsylvania, and founded the city of Philadelphia”, p.117

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• Well, I had said to my friends, it's going to be good, but I bet it's going to be cheesy in a way. And I didn't think that at all. It's so good and was just so funny.

  Brittany Snow

  Thinking, Cheesy, Way

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• I have a philosophy that everything you write doesn't have to be good for everybody. There are going to be people that get irritated by some of the things I write-including my parents. And then there are going to be people that you draw in because of the pointedness of certain things.

  Sheryl Crow

  Philosophy, Writing, People

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• There are two ways love can go. You can be good to each other or you could not play fair.

  Taylor Swift

  Play, Two, Way

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• I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Stupid, Years, Choices

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

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• To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Whole

  Vamanananda (Swami.), Arun Kumar Sinha, Swami Vivekananda (1993). “Eternal Platform”

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• Be good at something. It makes you valuable.

  Randy Pausch

  Last Lecture, Valuable, Childhood Dreams

  YouTube Channel "Carnegie Mellon University"/"Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams", www.youtube.com. December 20, 2007.

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