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• Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Real, Believe

  "Interview: Joel Osteen on Power of Prayer, Forgiveness, Trusting in God's Timetable". Interview with Melissa Barnhart, www.christianpost.com. September 24, 2013.

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• I think you've got good people and bad people in everything you do. If you start making a big deal of it, then it's a problem. It's like in life. We've got bad doctors and lawyers. We've got bad priests! We don't target every priest and say he's bad. You have to go to church and you have to go see some doctors. Some people have to be good.

  Master P

  Thinking, Doctors, People

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• To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be good, remembering well the beam and the mote.

  George MacDonald

  People, Trying, Way

  George MacDonald (2015). “The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more”, p.1127, e-artnow

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• She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.

  Gilbert Parker

  Race, Fierce, Harm

  Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

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• Indeed, when all parties campaign effectively the overall effect is to push up voting rates, as you see in tight marginal seats or close general elections. That must be good for democracy.

  Lucy Powell

  Party, Voting, Democracy

  "Postal voting: easy does it" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2008.

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• I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.

  Shelia Burrell

  Mean, Track, Want

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• I'm not perfect, I do drink. I do smoke. Carson Daly can't go out and get messed up, he can't smoke in front of kids - he's the face of MTV, and he has to be good. But me? I can.

  Tara Reid

  Children, Kids, Mtv

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• Any kind of crisis can be good. It wakes you up.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Wakes You, Kind, Crisis

  "Ryan Reynolds Still Not Over Scarlett Johansson Divorce". www.aceshowbiz.com. May 27, 2011.

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• From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

  Samuel Richardson

  Humor, Twenties, Sixteen

  Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.380

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• There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  May, Pleasant

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• Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at it.

  Jimmy Demaret

  Sex, Golf, Enjoy

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• My grandmother always used to wear this English perfume called Tuberose and then she died and then I dated this girl who wore the same thing. Every time I hung out with her, I could only think of my recently deceased grandmother. So sometimes a signature scent can be good and sometimes it can be bad.

  Mark Ronson

  Girl, Grandmother, Thinking

  "Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. Mark Ronson's Scent Manifesto.

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• You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.

  Hillary Scott

  Whiskey, Get Away, Doughnut

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• Good music is good music, but it has to be good.

  Vikram Seth

  Music Is

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• It would be good karma.

  Helio Castroneves

  Karma, Would Be, Good Karma

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• Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.

  Amity Shlaes

  Jobs, Unions, May

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• I could puke on myself and still be good looking.

  Scott Disick

  Looking Good, Stills, Puke

  "Kourtney Kardashian's Boyfriend Still Bad News?" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. December 28, 2009.

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• We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team.

  Aaron Boone

  Team, Reality, Years

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• A man who wishes to make a profession of goodness in everything must necessarily come to grief among so many who are not good. Therefore, it is necessary for a prince, who wishes to maintain himself, to learn how not to be good, and to use this knowledge and not use it according to the necessity of the case.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Grief, Men, Political

  "The Prince".

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• He had a vision for changing our Medicare system, for bringing more people into the reality that our government should be a partner in preventing people from getting sick ... and that was part of our motivation for changing the Medicare system, and we are in the midst of a revolution in Medicare that will, for many, many generations have real results that will be good for America and good for American citizens.

  Andrew Card

  Motivation, Real, Government

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• They had bombed London, whether on purpose or not, and the British people and London especially should know that we could hit back. It would be good for the morale of us all.

  Winston Churchill

  People, London, Would Be

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• How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing.

  Mary Astell

  Garden, World, Fine

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• Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Law, Numbers

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.47, Courier Corporation

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• Never give up, laugh a lot. Be good to others.

  James Dashner

  Giving Up, Laughing, Giving

  "Author Revealed". Simon & Schuster Interveiw, www.simonandschuster.com.

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• I don't think ambition was ever my strong suit. I always wanted to be successful, because you want to be good at what you do, but I've definitely always enjoyed playing a supporting part. I really enjoy the success of others.

  Selma Blair

  Strong, Ambition, Successful

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