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• We have souls. Sure we do. Otherwise we'd do bad things all the time. You know, like politicians.

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Soul, Politician, Knows

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.130, Penguin

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• The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.

  William McDonough

  Zero, Issues, People

  Source: www.triplepundit.com

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• My main theme is the extension of the nervous system in the electric age, and thus, the complete break with five thousand years of mechanical technology. This I state over and over again. I do not say whether it is a good or bad thing. To do so would be meaningless and arrogant.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Years, Age

  Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Business, Worst, Interest

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• You can't let the good things people say make you feel too good, because you're going to let the bad things make you feel bad.

  Eddie Murphy

  People, Good Things, Feels

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• In real life, bad things happen and they're not funny, and then bad things happen and they can be funny. When you're unhappy you don't go an entire time without laughing. You don't go your whole life without laughing. It's just life.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Real, Laughing, Unhappy

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• Do the stuff that only you can do. The urge, starting out, is to copy. And that's not a bad thing. Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

  Neil Gaiman

  Writing, Heart, Play

  Neil Gaiman's Commencement Address at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, www.uarts.edu. May 17, 2012.

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• Being misunderstood is not a bad thing as an actor. I know the truth.

  Christian Bale

  Misunderstood, Actors, I Know The Truth

  "Christian Bale May Kill Someone Yet". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. November 15, 2010.

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• Too much knowledge could be a bad thing. I was lead to the Szemerédi theorem by proving a result, about squares, that Euler had already proven, and I relied on an "obvious" fact, about arithmetical progressions, that was unproved at the time. But that lead me to try and prove that formerly unproved statement- about arithmetical progressions-and that ultimately lead to the Szemerédi Theorem.

  Endre Szemeredi

  Science, Squares, Trying

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• Fear is crippling. Fear of the future can convince us that there is no way out and nothing is ever going to get better. Fear is blinding; it can make us miss the warning signs flashing right in front of our eyes. It can also make you miss those brilliant flashes of color, when the world isn't so gray. But, if you think about it, being afraid isn't such a bad thing. Because fear is a reminder that you still have something to lose. Something worth holding onto.

  Cassia Leo

  Eye, Thinking, Color

  FaceBook post by Cassia Leo from Jul 22, 2014

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• In one way an oil boom is a mighty bad thing, because it gets into your blood and almost becomes an obsession. Booms are filled with excitement, adventure, and drama, but sometimes the exit from the scene must be made between suns on a pair of mighty weary feet.

  Sue Sanders

  Success, Business, Drama

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• Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• You can do everything you can to try to stop bad things from happening to you, but eventually things will happen, so the best prevention is a positive attitude.

  Marie Osmond

  Attitude, Trying, Prevention

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• Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

  Thomas Huxley

  Education, May, Impossible

  Leonard Huxley, Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.220, Cambridge University Press

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• Most human beings will not stand in front of a stage and tell you about the bad things they did.

  Spike Lee

  Stage, Humans, Human Beings

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• The whole, 'Is the internet a good thing or a bad thing'? We're done with that. It's just a thing. How to maximise its civic value, its public good - that's the really big challenge.

  Clay Shirky

  Challenges, Done, Internet

  "Clay Shirky: 'Paywall will underperform - the numbers don't add up'". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.

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• Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

  Amy Bloom

  People, Interesting, Good People

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• Bad things happen. And the human brain is especially adept at making sure that we keep track of these events. This is an adaptive mechanism important for survival.

  David Perlmutter

  Track, Brain, Survival

  "Human Memory: Why Bad Memories Stick" by David Perlmutter, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2011.

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• You think to yourself, “If one drink feels really good and two feels really, really good, a hundred ought to feel fantastic.” As sane people know, it doesn't work that way. A hundred drinks feels terrible. Bad things happen. But the addict keeps at it, thinking at some point it's going to get good again The point is to not feel what you're feeling. The problem is, you become someone you never thought you would become, and you have no idea how you got there.

  Kim Severson

  Thinking, Ideas, Two

  Kim Severson (2010). “Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Saved My Life”, p.13, Penguin

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• I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Feelings, Trying, Athens

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• I'm not naive, I know that bad things happen, but most people do the right thing most of the time. Most people wake up and they try to do what's right for their relationships, whether it's marriage or family. They try to do what's right for their job. They try to make a better world for those around them, and that's what I want to write about.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Jobs, Writing, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• FM signals and those of broadcast television...travel out to space at the speed of light. Any eavesdropping alien civilization will know all about our TV programs (probably a bad thing), will hear all our FM music (probably a good thing), and know nothing of the politics of AM talk-show hosts (probably a safe thing).

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Light, Civilization, Space

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• I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

  Matthew Rhys

  Thinking, Television, Way

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• It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.

  Terry O'Quinn

  Nice, School, Kids

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• It's easier to stop bad things than to pass good things.

  Jared Polis

  Good Things, Easier

  "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.

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