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• What else is wrong with 'suicide' bombing? Legally, less than what one might believe. While it may or may not be good strategy, it appears to be permissable under international law.

  Enver Masud

  Suicide, Believe, Islamic

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• Many flatter themselves and consider themselves to be good, humble, and meek, but they will discover the contrary under temptation. Do not not become despondent in temptations, then, but give all the more thanks to God that He thus brings you to what is hidden in your heart - the knowledge of yourself - and wishes you to be corrected and be saved.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Heart, Humble, Giving

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• What narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Innocence

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 395-96, De Ira, II. 27, 1922.

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• I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Giving, Opinion, Miscellaneous

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• Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Would Be, Use, Definitions

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• It's "Merry Christmas" at our house. Whatever it is at yours, have a happy one. And be good to somebody.

  Stephen King

  Christmas, House, Merry

  Twitter post from Dec 24, 2013

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• If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad.

  Epictetus

  Believe, Wish, Firsts

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

  Margaret Atwood

  Fear, Inspire, Pages

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Beautiful, Real, Home

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Running, Long

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• When a person tells others "Be good," he conveys to his hearers the feeling that he is good and they are not.

  Meher Baba

  Feelings, Goodness, Persons

  "How to Love God" by Meher Baba, September 12, 1954.

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• The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Fear, Rejection, Trying

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• Do not consider any act of service as demeaning. Sweeping the streets, for example, is not below your dignity. Do you not sweep the floor of your homes? Do you not scrub and wash off dirt? When you undertake such tasks, the villagers will also gladly share in them. Why feel ashamed to be good? The ridicule that may be cast on you has been the reward of many saints. It will soon fade away. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca by those who could not appreciate his teachings. Jesus was crucified. But their names resound in the heart of millions.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Jesus, Teaching, Heart

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• Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.

  Kim Basinger

  Design, Parent, Insecurity

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• Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

  Roger Federer

  Couple, Years, Careers

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• It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break

  Ronnie O'Sullivan

  Thinking, Careers, Decision

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• Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  Amy Poehler

  Adventure, Heart, Soul

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.

  Kirstie Alley

  Years, Age, Prove

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• Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good and what we judge to be evil. And this judgment is the primary thing that keeps us from doing the central thing God created us to do, namely, love like He loves.

  Gregory A. Boyd

  Love, Evil, Judging

  Gregory A. Boyd (2004). “Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God”, p.17, Baker Books

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• The motive, if you are to find inner peace, must be an outgoing motive. Service, of course-service. Giving, not getting. Your motive must be good if your work is to have good effect. The secret of life is being of service.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Peace, Helping Others, Giving

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.17, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

  Brigham Young

  Greatness, Men, Good Man

  Brigham Young (1856). “Journal of Discourses”, p.120

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• You think about some of the most memorable meals you've ever had; the food will be good but it will often be about locating a mental memory and taste is inexorably linked to all the other senses and memory, so ultimately it is all about taste.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Memories, Memorable, Thinking

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'My food is really emotional'" by Nick McGrath, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

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• I'd like the people teaching my kids to be good enough that they could get a job at the company I work for, making a hundred thousand dollars a year. Why should they work at a school for thirty-five to forty thousand dollars if they could get a job here at a hundred thousand dollars a year?

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Teaching, School

  "P. Diddy - Likely Wrong Choice for Howard U. Commencement Address" by Morris W. O’Kelly, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 22, 2014.

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• There are two things that have to happen before an idea catches on. One is that the idea should be good. The other is that it should fit in with the temper of the age. If it does not, even a good idea may well be passed by.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Ideas, Two, Age

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