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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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“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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“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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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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“The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.” — Martin Luther

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“All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” — Plato

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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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“We will have to repent in this generation; not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.” — Ray Bradbury

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

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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare

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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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“There was never a good war, or a bad peace.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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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“When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“For good nurture and education, implant good constitutions.” — Plato

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.” — Marcus Aurelius

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