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“I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.” — Ronald Reagan

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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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“Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.” — Maya Angelou

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“Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“Be not simply good - be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” — H. L. Mencken

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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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“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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“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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“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.” — H. L. Mencken

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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 bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.” — H. L. Mencken

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“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” — Socrates

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“For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.” — Winston Churchill

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“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” — Plutarch

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“A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.” — William Shakespeare

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“No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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

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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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“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau

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