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“Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.” — George Carlin

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“Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.” — Karl Marx

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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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“Active Evil is better than Passive Good.” — William Blake

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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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“Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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“A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.” — Samuel Johnson

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

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“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.” — Ambrose Bierce

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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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“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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“Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.” — George Eliot

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

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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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“Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.” — Thomas Jefferson

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