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“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” — Wayne Gretzky

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“There is no such thing as a good tax.” — Winston Churchill

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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.” — Ansel Adams

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“For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” — Mark Twain

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“An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's.” — Will Rogers

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“Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.” — Dalai Lama

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

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“There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.” — Woody Allen

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“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.” — Confucius

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“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” — Thomas Carlyle

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“Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.” — Mark Twain

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“One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.” — Thomas Paine

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“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” — Winston Churchill

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“A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards.” — Theodore Roosevelt

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“If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.” — Dalai Lama

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“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.” — Socrates

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“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” — Samuel Johnson

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“To be good is noble but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” — Mark Twain

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“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.” — Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.” — Stephen Hawking

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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” — Winston Churchill

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