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• Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

  Mark Driscoll

  Idols, Good Things, Be Good

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• There are those who insist that it is a very bad thing to question God. To them, “why?” is a rude question. That depends, I believe, on whether it is an honest search, in faith, for His meaning, or whether it is the challenge of unbelief and rebellion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Believe, Rude, Challenges

  Elisabeth Elliot (2006). “On Asking God Why: And Other Reflections on Trusting God in a Twisted World”, p.18, Revell

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• In accepting death as inevitable, we don't label it as a good thing or a bad thing. As one of my teachers once said to me, “Death happens. It is just death, and how we meet it is up to us.

  Joan Halifax

  Teacher, Labels, Good Things

  Joan Halifax (2008). “Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death”, p.172, Shambhala Publications

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• The expression 'there is nothing like the good old days' does not mean that fewer bad things happened before, but fortunately, that people tend to forget about them.

  Ernesto Sabato

  Mean, Expression, People

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• While I think men and women are equal, they are also different and I think it's inevitable and I don't think it's a bad thing at all that we always have, say, more women doing things like physiotherapy and an enormous number of women simply doing housework.

  Tony Abbott

  Men, Thinking, Numbers

  "Rudd hands PM a crucial lifeline" by Laurie Oakes, www.heraldsun.com.au. August 6, 2010.

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• The media are obsessed with spin doctors and with portraying them as a bad thing, yet seem addicted to our medicine.

  Alastair Campbell

  Doctors, Media, Medicine

  "Alastair Campbell" by Matthew Tempest, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2003.

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• If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, it wouldn't be a bad thing.

  Peter Lynch

  World, Ends, Economist

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• I want to be judged by who I am as a person, not by what happened to me. In fact, all the bad things have only contributed to my confidence and sense of self, because I survived them and became a better and stronger person.

  Jenna Jameson

  Self, Who I Am, Stronger

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• A country's adhering to the rule of law does not mean that its citizens will not do bad things.

  James Inhofe

  Country, Mean, Law

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• French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

  Mireille Guiliano

  Thinking, Worry, French Woman

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• If we continue to believe God and place our trust in Him, bad things ultimately give way to better things.

  Joyce Meyer

  God, Faith, Christian

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• The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Real, Stress, Thinking

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• It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

  Laura Fraser

  World, Care, Sides

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• You can say a lot of bad things about Alabama, but you can't say that Alabamans as a people are duly afraid of deep fryers.

  John Green

  People, Alabama

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• A wave of blood goes up to my head, my stomach shrinks together, as if something dangerous has just missed hitting me. It's as if I've been caught stealing, or telling a lie; or as if I've heard other people talking about me, saying bad things about me, behind my back. There's the same flush of shame, of guilt and terror, and of cold disgust with myself. But I don't know where these feelings have come from, what I've done.

  Margaret Atwood

  Lying, Blood, Talking

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

  Terry Pratchett

  Depressing, Thinking, Self

  "Jingo". Book by Terry Pratchett, November 1997.

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• The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

  David James Duncan

  Hurt, Lying, Fall

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• No, I'm just a very naughty boy. I do all sorts of bad things. I kick kittens. I make rude gestures at nuns.

  Cassandra Clare

  Boys, Naughty, Rude

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.701, Simon and Schuster

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• You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Long, Grace, Coward

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.125, A&C Black

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• The man watched him. Real life is pretty bad? What do you think? Well, I think we're still here. A lot of bad things have happened but we're still here. Yeah. You don't think that's so great. It's okay.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Real, Men, Thinking

  Cormac McCarthy (2007). “The Road”, p.226, Vintage

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• I...have always known that my destiny was, above all, a literary destiny — that bad things and some good things would happen to me, but that, in the long run, all of it would be converted into words. Particularly the bad things, since happiness does not need to be transformed: happiness is its own end.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Running, Destiny, Long

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• In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Eye, Order, Things In Life

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• Why does anyone stay in an unhappy relationship? Because people do. They do it all the time. And the truth is, when you're in it, when you're up to your neck in the everyday part of life with another human being, sometimes you don't exactly notice how bad things really are.

  Sarah Dunn

  Relationship, Two, People

  "Secrets To Happiness".

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• Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Christian, Good Life, Nice

  William Sloane Coffin (1985). “Living the Truth in a World of Illusions”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Nightmare, Said

  Stephen King (2017). “It: A Novel”, p.474, Simon and Schuster

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