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• Austin had a concussion tonight. That's the way it goes for us. We get one back, we lose one. Or lose two. We've had the most difficult time the last two years just keeping a full roster. Hopefully at some point at the end of the tunnel some good things can happen for the Indiana Pacers.

  Jermaine O'Neal

  Years, Two, Tunnels

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• Every runner has a little crazy in ‘em. It’s a good thing.

  Andrew Wheating

  Crazy, Ems, Littles

  Twitter post from May 24, 2013

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• The good thing about writing a true story is that you don't have to worry about giving an impression of realism.

  Laurent Binet

  Writing, Giving, Worry

  Laurent Binet (2012). “HHhH: A Novel”, p.25, Macmillan

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• The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.

  Rae Spoon

  Watches, Married, Seeds

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• I don’t usually think about things that are filthy, or unpleasant. I think about the good things, because I know they exist. And I want to believe in those good things.

  Kamijo Yuuji

  Believe, Thinking, Want

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• The propensity to do good things is a choice.

  Shaun Cassidy

  Choices, Propensity

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• The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

  Shreya Ghoshal

  Innovation, Important, Sound

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• Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down where I have been and am rising from, I am really saying), he can’t afford self-doubt and he can’t let other people’s opinions, even a father’s, keep him from writing.

  Wallace Stegner

  Father, Writing, Self

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.53, Modern Library

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• Fearlessness is a fool's boast, to my mind. The only men with no fear in them are dead, or the soon to be dead, maybe. Fear teaches you caution, and respect for your enemy, and to avoid sharp edges used in anger. All good things in their place, believe me. Fear can bring you out alive, and that's the very best anyone can hope for from any fight. Every man who's worth a damn feels fear. It's the use you make of it that counts.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Believe, Fighting, Men

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• You must intensify and render continuous by repeatedly presenting with suggestive ideas and mental pictures of the feast of good things, and the flowing fountain, which awaits the successful achievement or attainment of the desires.

  Robert Collier

  Successful, Ideas, Achievement

  Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.184, Penguin

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• May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.

  Charles Dickens

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Done

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Ghost Stories”, p.113, Pan Macmillan

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• Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your grief to the fullest. Don’t try and press it down. Don’t hide from it. Don’t escape. It is life too. It is truth. But it will pass and time will put a strange honey in the bitterness. That’s the way life goes.

  Ben Okri

  Grief, Miracle, Suffering

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• Balance out the good things and the bad that have happened in your life and you will have to acknowledge that you are still way ahead. You are unhappy because you have lost those things in which you took pleasure? But you can also take comfort in the likelihood that what is now making you miserable will also pass away.

  Boethius

  Balance, Unhappy, Passing Away

  Boethius, David R Slavitt (2008). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

  Charles Dickens

  Godmother, Lost

  Charles Dickens (2009). “Our Mutual Friend”, p.452, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

  Lynn Johnston

  Humble, Self, Enemy

  Interview with Tom Heintjes, cartoonician.com. 1994.

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• Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

  Homer

  Funny Simpsons, Ends, Funniest Simpsons

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• All good things to those who wait.

  Hannibal

  Waiting, Lambs, Quid Pro Quo

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• You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Men, Remembers Everything, Miserable Person

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• We construct and keep on constructing, yet intuition is still a good thing.

  Paul Klee

  Intuition, Constructs, Stills

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.159, Parkstone International

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• We're setting up mechanisms where we can kill human beings with drones and missiles where you're sitting at a console and pressing the button. We never have to hear their whimpering, or hear them begging for their mother, or dying in horrible realities around us. I don't know if that's necessarily such a good thing.

  George R. R. Martin

  Mother, Reality, Dying

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• In good novelistic fashion, the discovery I’ve made is that it’s complicated. I think that’s one of good things about exploring these questions in a non-polemic, fictional way: you get to feel out territory rather than take positions. Through writing this, I can understand the impulse to faith, how people make meaning, how people make community, without having to say, do this, don’t do that, or I believe, I don’t believe.

  Hari Kunzru

  Fashion, Believe, Writing

  "Starting into the void with Hari Kunzru" by Rollo Roming, www.newyorker.com. March 13, 2012.

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• The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Grateful, Expectations, Mind

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.24, GENERAL PRESS

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• One good thing about California is we have quite a broad-based economy. We provide more fruits and vegetables and produce to the United States than any other state. So we have actually the single largest agricultural sector in the country.

  Meg Whitman

  Country, California, Vegetables

  "Former eBay CEO Shares Her Values In A New Book". Interview with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. January 25, 2010.

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• Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

  George Benson

  Giving Up, Giving, Never Giving Up

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