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• Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

  Richard Bach

  Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Worst, Jonathan Seagull

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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

  Life, Sports, Failure

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• I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

  Dario Argento

  Phases, Nostalgia

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• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  Kirk Douglas

  Optimism, What If, Speech

  "Kirk Douglas: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

  Fred Durst

  Ego, Great Things, Walks

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• More information and more communications foster world peace and understanding. But connecting extremist nut cases together on the Web - whatever flavor extremism they are - is a really bad thing. More information may not be a good thing, either.

  Paul Saffo

  Communication, Nuts, Understanding

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• People can do bad things with free speech as well as good. You have to defend the Ku Klux Klan as well as Martin Luther King. It's like that. If you're going to defend the principle, then you have to defend people who use the principle badly.

  Salman Rushdie

  Kings, Ku Klux Klan, People

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.

  Bernard von NotHaus

  Mean, Government, Discipline

  Source: www.lewrockwell.com

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• The humanities teach us the value, even for business, of criticism and dissent. When there's a culture of going along to get along, where whistleblowers are discouraged, bad things happen and businesses implode.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Humanity, Criticism, Culture

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• When you're doing bad things, you just don't know whether you can conquer them or not. I found out how strong I could be when I was motivated, and I'm kind of proud of that.

  Johnny Mathis

  Strong, Proud, Kind

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Wish, Credit, Good Things

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.57, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because of the peer review process and because the scientific method prizes uncertainty and penalises anyone who goes out on any sort of a limb that is not held in place by abundant and well-documented evidence.

  Al Gore

  Culture, Peers, Peer Review

  "Al Gore's views on climate change, extreme weather and Keystone XL". Interview with Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I don't think focus is in itself ever a bad thing. But focus of the wrong kind, or managed poorly, can be.

  Daniel Goleman

  Thinking, Focus, Kind

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• Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

  William Gibson

  Hands, Looks, Unconscious

  "William Gibson: I really can’t predict the future". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.salon.com. January 22, 2012.

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• I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

  Clifford Geertz

  Atmosphere, Alive, Fields

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• It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

  Neil Gaiman

  Party, Home, Good Times

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It would be nice to redefine ourselves - at the moment we are drowning in diversity. That's not a bad thing, its just going to take a while before we refocus.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Nice, Diversity, Would Be

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• When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

  Sally Field

  May, Good Things, Certain

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• When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.

  Farrah Fawcett

  Happens, Things Happen, Bad Things Happen

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• Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.

  Zac Efron

  Hate, Humble, People

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• But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Today Life, People, Live For Today

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• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  Walter Anderson

  Moving On, Thankful, Gratitude

  Walter Anderson (1997). “The Confidence Course: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment”, Harpercollins

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• Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

  Patricia Briggs

  Life, Knowing, Challenges

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• Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.

  Peter David

  Real, War, Moving

  Peter David (2008). “Tigerheart”, p.85, Del Rey

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• It's not a bad thing to be loved.

  Koushun Takami

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