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“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.” — John Quincy Adams

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“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won't go.” — Margaret Walker

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“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It's good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.” — Toni Morrison

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“Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.” — Saint Basil

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“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.” — Frank Sinatra

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“Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.” — Helen Hayes

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“Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.” — Roger Babson

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“I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.” — Heath Ledger

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“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.” — Dan Quayle

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“A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them.” — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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“My message is that God is a good God.” — Joel Osteen

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“There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.” — Billy Graham

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“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” — Arthur Ashe

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“God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.” — Saint Augustine

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“Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.” — Charles Stanley

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“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.” — Bob Marley

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“God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards. If I do remember it, I always see some other virtue in that person.” — Saint Teresa of Avila

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“God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.” — Ramakrishna

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“Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.” — Mary Manin Morrissey

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“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” — E. W. Howe

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“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.” — Dick Gregory

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“The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.” — Ray Manzarek

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