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• Fear is the illusion that I have some control over the bad things that might happen to me.

  Michael Treanor

  Inspirational, Life, Might

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• Some parents were nervous about how they would portray everything, ... At a picnic the moms put on for the team and coaches, I said that all the reality shows are turning around and showing good things, not bad things.

  Dick Butkus

  Mom, Team, Reality

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• You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Should Have, Soul

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• All taxes discourage something. Why not discourage bad things like pollution rather than good things like working?

  Lawrence Summers

  Why Not, Taxation, Pollution

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• The bad things, don't do them. The good things, try to do them. Try to purify, subdue your own mind. That is the teaching of all buddhas.

  Nhat Hanh

  Teaching, Mind, Trying

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• People talk about escapism as if it's a bad thing... Once you've escaped, once you come back, the world is not the same as when you left it. You come back to it with skills, weapons, knowledge you didn't have before. Then you are better equipped to deal with your current reality.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Skills, People

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• It must be around forty, when you're "over the hill." I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Inspirational, Mean, Past

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.9, HarperCollins Australia

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• I think I was born 'in to deep,' and bad things happen every day. Sometimes I have to stab hellions. Sometimes I have to frame friends for murder, and stab evil math teachers, and watch my best friend die. Again. We deal with it, then we move on.

  Rachel Vincent

  Teacher, Moving, Math

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• He turned away, and suddenly she thought about the old children's story, where the stupid girl opens the box that God gave her, and all the evils of the world fly out, except Hope, which stays at the bottom; and she wondered what Hope was doing in there in the first place, in with all the bad things. Then the answer came to her, and she wondered how she could've been so stupid. Hope was in there because it was evil too, probably the worst of them all, so heavy with malice and pain that it couldn't drag itself out of the opened box.

  K.J. Parker

  Girl, Pain, Children

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• I'm sick of doing bad things and liking it and then wondering what's wrong with me. I want it to be over. I want to start again.

  Veronica Roth

  Sick, Want, Wonder

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• A lot of people think big business in America is a bad thing. I think it's a really good thing. Most people in business are ethical, hard-working, good people. And it's a meritocracy.

  Steve Jobs

  Business, Hard Work, Thinking

  "Steve Jobs: The Next Insanely Great Thing". Interview with Gary Wolf, www.wired.com. February 1, 1996.

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• No matter how bad things are, you can at least be happy that you woke up this morning. D.

  D. L. Hughley

  Good Morning, Good Day, Morning Inspirational

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• I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Dog, Home, Golf

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• Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Tired, Acceptance, Knowing

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built through the ages.

  Edith Hamilton

  Strong, Men, Advice

  Edith Hamilton (1987). “The Greek way ; The Roman way”, Random House Value Pub

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• Bad things are always going to happen in life; People will eventually hurt you, but you can't use that as an excuse to hurt someone back.

  Chris Brown

  Hurt, People, Use

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• No fear... we are never sure of anything... fear never prevents [bad things] from happening.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Fear, Atheism, Rage

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• Some people are afraid of change and [feel] that getting older is a bad thing, but I really love maturing and gaining wisdom, and the experience of being pregnant and having a child and seeing what a woman's body can do is amazing.

  Christina Aguilera

  Children, People, Getting Older

  "Christina Aguilera: 'I Embrace My Body' Through Aging and Motherhood". Interview with Jessica Herndon, people.com. October 16, 2012.

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• Gaddafi's a great bloke. The media only show the bad things. I used to go round his house. His son's a super simple guy. All the Gaddafis are very down to earth.

  Luis de Agustini

  Football, Son, Simple

  "Said & Done" by David Hills, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

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• None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wine, Thinking, Abuse

  Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Complete Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln (Biographically Annotated Edition)”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't spend much time in it. I go in there for my lunch and for coffee in the afternoon. I'd rarely be in there at night. I don't think it's neccessarily a bad thing but if it's abused obviously it's a bad thing.

  Lucinda Creighton

  Coffee, Gay, Night

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• A little nonsense now and then is not a bad thing - where would we politicians be if we were not allowed to talk it sometimes.

  Enoch Powell

  Littles, Sometimes, Nonsense

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• The biggest mistake of the man is that he thinks he doesn't deserve the good and the bad things from his life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Mistake, Men, Thinking

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• I didn't want to work. It was as simple as that. I distrusted work, disliked it. I thought it was a very bad thing that the human race had unfortunately invented for itself.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Race, Want

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Endless Night”, p.25, HarperCollins UK

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• Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

  Andrew Klavan

  Soul, Might, Matter

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