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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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• [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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• 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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• It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Simple, Simplicity

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Heart of Emerson's Journals”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Way

  Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2

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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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• 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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• 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

  Men, Age, Problem

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.483, Harvard University Press

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• You must know in your heart before anyone else does what is going to be good and then follow through.

  Bill Budge

  Heart, Doe, Follow Through

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• I'm for gay marriage. I don't want to do it, but I certainly think people should be allowed to, and I wouldn't vote for anybody that would be against it. But at the same time, why do we have to be good now? Why can't we be villains in movies?

  John Waters

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy.

  Donald Fagen

  Writing, Simple, Giving

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• Even when there's not a joke or a hook, the first line has to be good and snapem to attention. Songs ain't novels. You don't have 30 pages to slowly wrap somebody in. They're more like short stories or poems. If the first line hasn't grabbed them, you won't get to the second line. Once you've developed an audience, you may have some luxury and trust, so you don't have to knock 'em over the head with line one.

  Dan Bern

  Song, Writing, Luxury

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• Tom [Collins] was a great influence on me. He really pushed me...constantly demanded rewrites. And, as much as I despised them, it was the best thing that could have happened because he just wouldn't settle for less. It had to be right, and it had to be good.

  Dean Dillon

  Writing, Influence, Settling

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• My optimism is grounded in two worlds, myself and what is about me. I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove my proclamation overwhelmingly true.

  Helen Keller

  Two, Optimism, Facts

  Helen Keller (2012). “Optimism”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• From yon blue heavens above us bent The gardener Adam and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. Howe'er it be, it seems to me, 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Smile, Heart, Simple

  "Lady Clara Vere de Vere" l. 55 (1842)

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• Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball.

  Carl Furillo

  Eye, Might, Carrots

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• Before Santa and presents and shopping and all the attendant Christmas (stuff) got involved, this holiday was enshrined to commemorate a guy who got nailed to a tree for daring to tell people to be kind to one another. If you have two cloaks, He said, give one away. Remember those who have less than you, be charitable, be good, be merciful.

  William Rivers Pitt

  Holiday, Shopping, Two

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• Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!'

  Marlin K. Jensen

  Prayer, Home, Sunday

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• I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Jesus, Stars, Believe

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

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• If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

  Guy Fieri

  Dog, Mistake, Safety Zone

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

  Katey Sagal

  Wanted, Being Famous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I went down to 112 pounds and realized my brain doesn't work when I'm that thin, so I can't do my job. That's why, when I came out here, I never had that whole Hollywood pressure thing. I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  Carey Mulligan

  Running, Jobs, People

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• I was talking to one of my aunties at Christmas and she said she didn’t think it was ever in my nature to go against the grain, that I was always a good boy. I think she was right - I did always want to be good.

  James McAvoy

  Boys, Thinking, Talking

  Interview with John Preston, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 15, 2011.

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• My favorite part of a roller-coaster ride is when you're going up and you're slightly scared and really excited. You don't know what's coming next but you know it's going to be good. You can't handle it, go on the carousel

  Gina Gershon

  Goes On, Next, Scared

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• Each achieves one or both of two objectives — making liberals feel good about themselves and being good to liberal candidates.

  George Will

  Agendas

  "The liberal agenda is being good to liberals" by George Will, www.washingtonpost.com. February 26, 2014.

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