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“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

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

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“A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Diligence is the mother of good luck.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.” — Albert Camus

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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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“A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.” — Carl Sagan

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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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“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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“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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“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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“It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.” — Ronald Reagan

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“Acorns were good until bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

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“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.” — Ernest Hemingway

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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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“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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“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” — Michelangelo

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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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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.” — Aldous Huxley

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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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“Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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