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• Nobody should be allowed to tinker with democracy. We will not discontinue the good works of the past government.

  Manmohan Singh

  Past, Government, Democracy

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• So then you have to say to yourself: Do I want to be rich, or do I want to do good work?

  Jackie Cooper

  Want, Rich

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• Positively, the best thing a man can have to do, is nothing, and next to that perhaps — good works.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Next, Best Things

  Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838). “The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life”, p.264

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• In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation in which man learns that salvation is obtained only as a divine gift an never as an acquisiton because of good works.

  G. C. Berkouwer

  Men, Grace, Way

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• The life of the nation is shot through with a certain falseness and hypocrisy, which are all the more tragic because they are so often subconscious rather than deliberate ... The soul of the people is putrescent, and until that becomes regenerate and clean, no good work can be done.

  Frantz Fanon

  People, Hypocrisy, Soul

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• Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

  Wislawa Szymborska

  Tiny, Twinkling, Galaxy

  Wisława Szymborska (1981). “Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems”, p.109, Princeton University Press

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• If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

  Randall Terry

  Doctrine, Old Testament, Knows

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• I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

  Jim Wallis

  Religious, Thinking, Organization

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• What makes a good work of art is something that honors certain traditions and breaks with others.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Art, Honor, Tradition

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks The Lookout". www.movieweb.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Religious, Benefits, Sticks

  "Police officers under attack: Treatment of cops in America". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Juan Williams, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. May 14, 2015.

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• Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

  Criss Jami

  Unconditional Love, Helping Others, Giving

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.104, Criss Jami

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• Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works.

  Miroslav Volf

  Giving, Naked, Needs

  Miroslav Volf (2009). “Free of Charge”, p.74, Zondervan

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• I just want to do really good work.

  Chaske Spencer

  Want

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• ...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers.

  John Muir

  Fall, Good Luck, Sky

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.225, Library of America

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• The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.

  Walter Cronkite

  Workout, Sadness, Half

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.

  Meher Baba

  Faces, Helping, Reactions

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• You cannot do good work if you take your mind off the work to see how the community is taking it.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Community, Mind, Activism

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• I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painting, Painter, Models

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• I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Believe, Artist, Ideas

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• Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Work, Together, May

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• There is much good work to be done by every one of us and we must begin to do it.

  Wendell Berry

  Work, Done, Work To Be Done

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• The name of our proper connection to the earth is 'good work,' for good work involves much giving of honor. It honors the source of its materials; it honors the place where it is done; it honors the art by which it is done; it honors the thing that it makes and the user of the made thing.

  Wendell Berry

  Art, Work, Names

  Wendell Berry (1993). “Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community: Eight Essays”, Pantheon

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• I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

  Claude Monet

  Weakness, Chance, Blame

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

  Alfred the Great

  Men, Remembrance, Desire

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