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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 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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“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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“The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.” — Albert Camus

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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” — Jackie Kennedy

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“The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.” — Channing Pollock

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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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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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

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

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“Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Good men must not obey the laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“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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“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary the evil it does is permanent.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” — Benjamin Franklin

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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 greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

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