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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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• Hope was supposed to be a good thing, but it was starting to feel like every other four-letter word you're not supposed to say.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Four, Letters, Starting

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• It's a good thing most people bleed on the inside or this would be a gory, blood-smeared earth.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Life, Blood, People

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• ...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Inspiring, Spirit, Left Alone

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.59, New Society Publishers

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• The good thing about being explosive is that no one can beat you.

  Neal Shusterman

  Beats, Explosives

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Unwind Unboxed: Unwind; UnStrung: an Unwind story; UnWholly”, p.471, Simon and Schuster

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  Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Soul And Body, Good Company

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2484, e-artnow

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• She collapsed at the bottom of the trail, at the edge of the ghost town. Dekka sat on Edilio and pressed down on the wound. The force of the blood was weaker now. She could almost hold the blood back now, not a good thing, no, because it meant he was almost finished, his brave heart almost done beating. Dekka looked up straight into the glittering eyes of a coyote. She could sense the others around her, closing in. Wary but sensing that a fresh meal was close at hand.

  Michael Grant

  Heart, Eye, Blood

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• The art of living is always to make a good thing out of a bad thing.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Life, Art, Inspire

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• Pessimism is not in being tired of evil but in being tired of good. Despair does not lie in being weary of suffering, but in being weary of joy. It is when for some reason or other good things in a society no longer work that the society begins to decline; when its food does not feed, when its cures do not cure, when its blessings refuse to bless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Tired, Blessing

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, VIII: The End of the World, 1925.

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• The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

  Vera Nazarian

  People, Helping, Remember

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• All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power, and your soul power—‘Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.’ (Matt. 7:7.) But you have to seek, you have to knock. On the other hand, sin thrusts itself upon you. It walks beside you, it tempts you, it entices, it allures. You do not have to put forth effort. … Evil seeks you, and it requires effort and fortitude to combat it. But truth and wisdom are gained only by seeking, by prayer, and by effort.

  David O. McKay

  Prayer, Hands, Evil

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• If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Love You, Men

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• It's a good thing Kerry's dead, because that funeral would've sent him over the edge," Henry said.

  Gayle Forman

  Funeral, Said, Over The Edge

  Gayle Forman (2009). “If I Stay”, p.81, Penguin

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• The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Believe, Science, Bad Ass

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2013

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• I have a hunch that our obsession with photography arises from an unspoken pessimism; it is our nature to believe the good things will not last. . . But photos provide a false sense of security> like our flawed memory, they are guaranteed to fade. . . . We take photographs in order to remember, but it is in the nature of a photograph to forget (pg 157)

  Michelle Richmond

  Photography, Memories, Believe

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• I thought about the earth then, really thought about it, the tsunami's and earthquakes and volcanoes, all the horrors I haven't witnessed but have changed my life, the lives of everyone I know, all the people I'll never know. I thought about life without the sun, the moon, stars, without flowers and warm days in May. I thought about a year ago and all the good things I'd taken for granted and all the unbearable things that had replaced those simple blessings. And even though I hated the thought of crying in from of Syl, tears streamed down my face.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Stars, Flower, Taken

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• ‎"With any major decision there are cautions and considerations to make, but once there has been illumination, beware the temptation to retreat from a good thing. If it was right when you prayed about it and trusted it and lived for it, it ...is right now. Don't give up when the pressure mounts. Certainly don't go to that being who is bent on your destruction of your happiness. Face your doubts. Master your fears. 'Cast not away therefore your confidence.' Stay the course and see the beauty of life unfold for you.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Illumination

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• What kind of life am i supposed to have without you?You were the one good thing,the only good thing i ever found.

  Claudia Gray

  Kind, Found, Without You

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• Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Sweet, Flower, Book

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