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• Linus: Nothing goes on forever. All good things must come to an end... Charlie: When do the good things start?

  Charles M. Schulz

  Forever, Goes On, Ends

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• A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

  George Carlin

  Country, Burning, Done

  George Carlin (2009). “Last Words”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• If I existed 200 years ago, all the other farmers in my community would be like, 'That guy is worthless! He's sitting on a rock, jumping up like a frog, coming up with weird concepts and ideas, making faces, and combing his hair into a giant pastry.' It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jumping, Hair, Rocks

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 30, 2006.

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• My father hired you to protect me," Ahmed said, "not to go off chasing men." Grandma leaned forward, keeping her eye on the Taurus. "We think this guy killed Fred." "Who's Fred?" "My uncle," I told him. "He's married to Mabel." "Ah so you're avenging a murder in the family. This is a good thing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Uncles, Father, Grandma

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.529, Macmillan

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• It's a good thing to turn your mind upside down now and then, like an hour-glass, to let the particles run the other way.

  Christopher Morley

  Running, Science, Glasses

  Christopher Morley (2013). “The Haunted Bookshop”, p.12, Melville House

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• Time heals. No, it doesn't. At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins. We find ways to distract ourselves from the pain. Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound's other face.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Coffins, Tissues

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• Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Men, Never Trust, Rich

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• Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Perfect, Twists

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• The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Way, Crosses

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• A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all the good things worked by you before become vain.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Winning

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• We have taken so much from your culture, I wish you had taken something from ours...For there were some beautiful and good things within it. Perhaps now that the time has come, We are fearful that what you take will be lost.... I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success: His education, his skills, and society.

  Chief Dan George

  Beautiful, Taken, Native American

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• If you want to do one good thing in the world, the best thing you can do is give other people joy.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, People, Giving

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• It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  Country, War, Drug

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• I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.

  Michael Kirby

  Love, Court Judges, Things In Life

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• Everything is a tradeoff. Everywhere you leave, you leave some good things. The more successful you are, the harder it is to make tradeoffs. That's why some people become successful and then become flat. Be willing to give up income for potential, for opportunity.

  John C. Maxwell

  Monday, Giving Up, Successful

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• The good things of life are not to be had singly, but come to us with a mixture; like a school-boy's holiday, with a task affixed to the tail of it.

  Charles Lamb

  School, Holiday, Boys

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia [both series]; to which are added, Letters, and Rosamund, a tale”, p.294

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• For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Memorable, People

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• The working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are responsible for everything that takes place, the good things and the bad things. True enough, they suffer most from a war, but it is their apathy, craving for authority, etc., that is most responsible for making wars possible. It follows of necessity from this responsibility that the working masses of men and women, they and they alone, are capable of establishing lasting peace.

  Wilhelm Reich

  War, Responsibility, Men

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• None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wine, Thinking, Abuse

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

  Mark Twain

  Humor, Easy, Diligence

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “Great Speeches”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Democracy, Ifs

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• The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

  W. C. Sellar

  Political, Debt, Pay

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• I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

  Tim Allen

  Success, My Family, Used

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• You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Should Have, Soul

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• Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal....

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Long, Mexican

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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