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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.”— Hunter S. Thompson
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“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”— Mark Twain
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“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.”— Charles Darwin
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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”— Thomas Jefferson
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“Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.”— Aldous Huxley
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“Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.”— C. S. Lewis
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“He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.”— Francis Bacon
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“The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.”— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”— Abraham Lincoln
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“By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.”— Socrates
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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.”— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.”— Aldous Huxley
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“War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.”— George Orwell
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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.”— Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.”— Thomas Aquinas
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“An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.”— Albert Einstein
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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.”— H. L. Mencken
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“I would go to the deeps a hundred times to cheer a downcast spirit. It is good for me to have been afflicted, that I might know how to speak a word in season to one that is weary.”— Charles Spurgeon
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“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”— H. L. Mencken
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.”— H. L. Mencken
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“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”— Henry Ward Beecher
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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”— H. L. Mencken
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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.”— Aldous Huxley
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“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”— Anne Frank
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“Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.”— Warren Buffett