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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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“You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.” — Jackie Kennedy

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

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“The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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“We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.” — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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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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“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.” — William Shakespeare

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

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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 easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.” — George Bernard Shaw

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

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“A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.” — George Bernard Shaw

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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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“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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“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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“I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.” — Henry David Thoreau

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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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“When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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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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“A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.” — Elbert Hubbard

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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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