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“I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.” — Aldous Huxley

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

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

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“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.” — Marcus Aurelius

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

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“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” — Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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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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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'” — Steven Wright

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“It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.” — Thomas Paine

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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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“Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole d--n life and one is as good as the other.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.” — Elbert Hubbard

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“A good conscience is a continual Christmas.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is no harm in repeating a good thing.” — Plato

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“He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.” — Rabindranath Tagore

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“Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.” — Yogi Berra

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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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“The best is the enemy of the good.” — Voltaire

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“I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.” — Ernest Hemingway

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“A good garden may have some weeds.” — Thomas Fuller

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“He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.” — Henry Ford

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