“ Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
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“ Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. ”
- Louis Kronenberger- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means. ”
- Claudian- Copy
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“ Technology happens. It's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad? ”
- Andrew Grove- Copy
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“ If you think this Universe is bad, you should see some of the others. ”
- Philip K. Dick- Copy
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“ Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth. ”
- Stephen Baldwin- Copy
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“ It is not possible to make a bad law. If is is bad, it is not a law. ”
- Carry Nation- Copy
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“ The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones. ”
- Solomon Ibn Gabirol- Copy
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“ There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field. ”
- Alan Dean Foster- Copy
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“ I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown. ”
- Andy Gibb- Copy
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“ Habits… the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way — by finding that it is a means of satisfaction. ”
- Juliene Berk- Copy
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“ Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all. ”
- John Maynard Keynes- Copy
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“ If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
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“ Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ A truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the lies you can invent. It is right it should be so; Man was made for Joy and Woe; And when this we rightly know, Thro' the world we safely go, Joy and woe are woven fine, A clothing for the soul divine. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
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“ To some, freedom means the opportunity to do what they want to do; to most it means not to do what they do not want to do. It is perhaps true that those who can grow will feel free under any condition. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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