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• Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

  Dick Butkus

  Mom, Team, Reality

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• The early commitments, early recruiting, that had changed. The whole clock is pushed ahead and you have to make decisions earlier about who to and who not to recruit. Is that a good thing I'm not sure, but it is reality.

  Kirk Ferentz

  Commitment, Reality, Decision

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• I find it very difficult to think of mistakes; not that I don't make any but because I was brought up to look only at the good things in life ... As for what lost the most money, probably Virgin Cola. It is still No 1 in Bangladesh though.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Mistake, Thinking

  "Thoroughly postmodern billionaire" by Jane Martinson, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2006.

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• I'm a normal human being. I don't have any desire to change my body as a result of having had two kids. That's a good thing, isn't it?

  Kate Winslet

  Kids, Two, Desire

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• Carry in your memory, for the rest of your life, the good things that came out of those difficulties. They will serve as a proof of your abilities and will give you confidence when you are faced by other obstacles.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Memories, Inspiration

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• When every day seems the same, it is because we have stopped noticing the good things that appear in our lives.

  Paulo Coelho

  Our Lives, Seems, Noticing

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• When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Optimism, May, Action

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.291, Macmillan

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• It could be anything, give a homeless guy a sandwich, help an old lady across the street like anything to make this world a better place. If everybody just did one good thing for another person like a selfless good deed just think about how much a better place this would be.

  Frank Iero

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• Certainly, it is. Love is love, and loss is loss. We all love, and we all die, and everyone suffers the pain of grieving. The trick is to enjoy what you have while you have it. Not run like a bunny from the good things because they might be taken away sooner than you’d like.

  Lynsay Sands

  Running, Pain, Taken

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• All good things
  Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh helps soul!

  Robert Browning

  Soul, Flesh, Helping

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.403, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say yes is a better thing.

  Jim Wallis

  Simple, Path, Madness

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• The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

  Mark Rutte

  Imf, Involved

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

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• Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that.

  Bill Gates

  Money, Business, Past

  "InfoWorld" Magazine, October 2001.

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• Our desire to bring every good thing to our children is a force for good throughout the world. It’s what propels societies forward.

  Melinda Gates

  Inspirational, Motivational, Family

  "Let's put birth control back on the agenda". TED talks, www.ted.com. April, 2012.

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• If you played the game the right way, played the game for the team, good things would happen

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Team, Games

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• This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Want, Very Good

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• Punk was over in two years. That was the only damn good thing about it.

  Julie Burchill

  Years, Two, Punk

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• It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of all time.

  Neil Cavuto

  Leader, Age, Television

  "Why Can't Ugly People Have Charisma?". townhall.com, July 10, 2004.

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• If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour.

  George Eliot

  Thinking, Empathy, Tables

  George Eliot (2016). “Adam Bede: Top Novelist Focus”, p.94, 谷月社

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• When you talk about your troubles, your ailments, your diseases, your hurts, you give longer life to what makes you unhappy. Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. Think and talk only about the good things that add to your enjoyment of your work and life. If you don't talk about your grievances, you'll be delighted to find them disappearing quickly.

  Thomas Dreier

  Life, Hurt, Thinking

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• It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Book, Gun, Men

  Ludwig Von Mises (1963). “Human action: a treatise on economics”

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• We've gotten rid of (Saddam Hussein), and I suppose that's a good thing.

  Howard Dean

  Hussein, Saddam

  "First debate: The nine Democratic candidates on hand" by Judy Woodruff, www.cnn.com. April 10, 2003.

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• Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

  Mark Driscoll

  Idols, Be Good, Bad Things

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• The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

  Giuliano Amato

  Calling, Constitution, Referendums

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