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

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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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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” — H. L. Mencken

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“Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

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“The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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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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“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” — Mark Twain

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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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“You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.” — Marcus Aurelius

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“I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.” — Mark Twain

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“The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.” — Sun Tzu

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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's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.” — Mark Twain

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“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“An overflow of good converts to bad.” — William Shakespeare

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“The good man is the friend of all living things.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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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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