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• There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good,' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

  Orson Scott Card

  Community, Fiction, Benefits

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• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Lakes

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• It is only great souls that know how much glory there is in being good.

  Sophocles

  Soul, Self Improvement, Glory

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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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• We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

  Lin Yutang

  People, Society, Impossible

  Yutang Lin (1936). “My country and my people”

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• You'd think is something one would grow out of. But you grow into it. The more you do, the more you realize how painfully easy it is to be lousy and how very difficult to be good.

  Glenda Jackson

  Thinking, Theatre, Realizing

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• The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

  Randy Anderson

  Differences, Excellence, Littles

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• You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

  Winston Churchill

  Good Luck, Adversity, May

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

  Mark E. Hyman

  Pregnancy, Being Positive, Negative

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• There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.

  Charles Saatchi

  Artist, Sharks, Oil

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

  Karl Barth

  Men

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• God uses the opposite situation of each fruit to allow us a choice. You can't claim to be good if you have never been tempted to be bad.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Opposites, Choices

  "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?". Book by Rick Warren, 2003.

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• Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

  Steven Pinker

  Work Out, Robots, Goodness

  Steven Pinker (2009). “How the Mind Works”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.

  David Chase

  Writing, Character, Interesting

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• The most important question we must ask ourselves is, 'Are we being good ancestors?'

  Jonas Salk

  Important, Ancestor, Asks

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• The chemicals in the dishwashing process tend not to be good for saucepans.

  Delia Smith

  Chemicals, Process

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• The people always know that some of the grain will be good, some of the crop will be saved, some will return and bear the strength of the kernel, that from the bloodiest year some survive to outfox the frost.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Years, People, Frost

  Neala Schleuning, Meridel Le Sueur (1983). “America, song we sang without knowing: the life and ideas of Meridel LeSueur”, Don Olson Distribution

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• However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Two, Track

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• Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

  Confucius

  Law, Punishment, People

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it.

  Confucius

  Blow, Government, Wind

  Confucius, James Legge (1893). “Confucian Analects: The Great Learning, and The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.105, Courier Corporation

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• There are any number of people who profess to be good Christian people who are willing to believe all kinds of things on suspicion. Now that is not the way the Bible directs for Christian people to do

  John Harvey Kellogg

  Christian, Believe, Numbers

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• In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.

  Alex Flinn

  Beautiful, People, Stories

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• When the soil's fertility is being conserved instead of raped, when village life is a social unity, when pride of craftsmanship returns, when everyone works for the sake of adding beauty and importance to life, when every river is clean and bright, and the proud words 'I serve' are in everyone's heart and purpose. Then my country will be good enough for me.

  Henry Williamson

  Country, Heart, Pride

  Henry Williamson (1966). “A solitary war”

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• I think the director is becoming more important. To work under rushed conditions, you need to have an extremely professional director. If the director's good than the end result will be good.

  Glenn Ford

  Thinking, Important, Becoming

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