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• The National Debt is a very Good Thing and it would be dangerous to pay it off for fear of Political Economy.

  W. C. Sellar

  Political, Debt, Pay

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• The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

  Paul Krugman

  People, Problem, Economics

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• I used to live an isolated existence, even in relationships, but now my family knows me for who I really am. Mostly, that's a good thing.

  Tim Allen

  Success, My Family, Used

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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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• What's the difference? How can people be so inconsistent? Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There's a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?

  Milton Friedman

  Differences, People, Why Not

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• Look, for example, at the obvious, immediate, practical example of illegal Mexican immigration. Now, that Mexican immigration, over the border, is a good thing. It's a good thing for the illegal immigrants. It's a good thing for the United States. It's a good thing for the citizens of the country. But, it's only good so long as its illegal....

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Long, Mexican

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

  Sammy Hagar

  Cutting, Loses

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• That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

  Saint Augustine

  Fire, Faithful, May

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• The old Catholic church traditions are worth more than all you have said. Here is a principle of logic that most men have no more sense than to adopt. I will illustrate it by an old apple tree. Here jumps off a branch and says, I am the true tree, and you are corrupt. If the whole tree is corrupt, are not its branches corrupt? If the Catholic religion is a false religion, how can any true religion come out of it? If the Catholic church is bad, how can any good thing come out of it?

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Apples, Catholic Religion

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• Recycling is a good thing to do. It makes people feel good to do it. The thing I want to emphasize is the vast difference between recycling for the purpose of feeling good and recycling for the purpose of solving the trash problem.

  Barry Commoner

  Differences, People, Feel Good

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• A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Independent, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, Correspondence and Private Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Late President of the United States”, p.346

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• No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Disappointment, Book

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• It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

  Charles Dickens

  Couple, Hands, People

  Charles Dickens (1995). “The Letters of Charles Dickens”

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• I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Political, Investing

  "Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip". www.reuters.com. March 21, 2007.

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• There's a certain sense of ownership that the fans have over you....The thing is, it's all good. You just have to get used to it. If somebody comes up to you while you're eating dinner or something, it's kind of like, 'Well, I asked for it.' It's much better than the alternative-nobody caring and nobody buying your music. The point is to try to just realize that these people are really excited, and that's a good thing. You want them to be that way.

  Carrie Underwood

  Caring, People, Over You

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• Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

  Ken Livingstone

  People, Politics, Waste

  "The Guardian profile: Ken Livingstone" by Kevin Maguire, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

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• For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

  Romero Britto

  Art, Simple, Things In Life

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• As an artist, i feel lucky to have been given the gift of creativity so that i may share my vision of a better world. I will never forget what it was like to be poor and that is why it is so important to me that my work be accessible to all people. For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is the most important to me.

  Romero Britto

  Art, Creativity, Simple

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• A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

  Victor LaValle

  Style, Ugly, Littles

  Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.220, Oldcastle Books

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• I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

  Leah Remini

  Trying, Good Person, Downfall

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.

  Deepika Padukone

  Stars, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

  January Jones

  Believe, Balls, Pessimistic

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• I don't know if I was a star. I was certainly working a lot and that was strange because there were good things about it and things that were difficult.

  Jennifer Connelly

  Stars, Strange, Difficult

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• The good thing is that I have always had wonderful people around me. It's dangerous when you start earning a lot of money and you become famous when you are too young.

  Penelope Cruz

  People, Earning, Wonderful

  "Captain Corelli's Mandolin : Interview With Penélope Cruz". www.cinema.com. 2001.

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• People go for help, but their lives don't get better because of those [psychiatric] drugs. They get worse. They feel numb and they're told that's a good thing. It's how you degrade a society - by drugging the piss out of it.

  Tom Cruise

  People, Drug, Get Better

  "Whirl of the words", www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2005.

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