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“It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.” — Ray Bradbury

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“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” — Edmund Burke

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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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“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.” — Will Rogers

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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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“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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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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“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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“A man is called selfish not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.” — Richard Whately

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“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?” — Aldous Huxley

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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

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“For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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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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“If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.” — Bill Gates

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“It takes a great man to be a good listener.” — Calvin Coolidge

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“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.” — Thomas Aquinas

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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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“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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“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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