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• I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

  Bobby Bowden

  Monday, Morning, Mistake

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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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• It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Giving, Justice, President

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1933, Volume 2”, p.497, Best Books on

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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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• [Iraqis] know we own their country...It's a good thing, especially when there is a lot of oil out there we need.

  William R. Looney III

  Country, Peace, War

  "A Lot For Access" by Al Kamen, www.washingtonpost.com. June 24, 1996.

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• Good is always a good thing.

  Drake

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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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• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

  Lawrence Summers

  Why Not, Taxation, Pollution

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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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• The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

  Paul Krugman

  People, Problem, Economics

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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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• What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Why Not

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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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• The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

  Sammy Hagar

  Cutting, Loses

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• That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

  Saint Augustine

  Fire, Faithful, May

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• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Apples, Catholic Religion

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• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

  Barry Commoner

  Differences, People, Feel Good

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• A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Independent, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.346

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Hands, People

  Charles Dickens (1995). “The Letters of Charles Dickens”

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