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• It is not my experience that we are here to fix the world, that we are here to change anything at all. I think we are here so the world can change us. And if part of that change is that the suffering of the world moves us compassion, to awareness, to sympathy, to love, that is a very good thing.

  Cheri Huber

  Love, Change, Moving

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• Our attitude is that if you hire good people and pay them a fair wage, then good things will happen for the company.

  James Sinegal

  Attitude, Business, People

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• The speed at which a business success is recognized, furthermore, is not that important as long as the company's intrinsic value is increasing at a satisfactory rate. In fact, delayed recognition can be an advantage: It may give us the chance to buy more of a good thing at a bargain price.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Long, Giving

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• For better or worse, that is true with any new innovation, certainly any new technological innovation. There's many good things that come out of it, but also some bad things. All you can do is try to maximize the good stuff and minimize the bad stuff.

  Steve Case

  Innovation, Trying, Stuff

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• I just wanted to set a good example. I wanted to do things that I hadn't done before. My whole thing was to just try to be professional. I think when you work hard, good things happen, so obviously, because we're going to the Finals.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Hard Work, Thinking

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• They talked about teamwork. That's all it is. It's about team effort. No particular player trying to outshine each other. Playing unselfishly and believe. Good things will come.

  Rajon Rondo

  Basketball, Teamwork, Believe

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• The good thing in chess is that very often the best moves are the most beautiful ones. The beauty of logic.

  Boris Gelfand

  Beauty, Beautiful, Moving

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• There's a lot of good things about England, but I don't want to tell you too many of them.

  Michael Clarke

  Want, England

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• The ability to be successful should be a good thing.

  Michael Grimm

  Successful, Should, Ability

  "As Romney breaks away, the 'Reagan Rule' of not attacking fellow Republicans is tossed aside". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. January 10, 2012.

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• And all those who desire to celebrate, glorifying with faith and seeking Your salvation and mercy through me, grant to them Your good things in this world, and to go forth pleasing You, and make them worthy of Your heavenly Kingdom, for You are the only Good One and Lover-of-man, and the Giver of Good things, unto the ages. Amen.

  Marina of Aguas Santas

  Humility, Men, Age

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• To have you in my life is wondrous
  Yet all good things, allegedly, come to an end,
  Piffle, says I, for you, undoubtedly,
  Will forever be my lover and best friend.

  John Walter Bratton

  Anniversary, Forever, Lovers

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• It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish.
  So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then
  Just think, you'll be 70
  In just those short years, numbering ten

  John Walter Bratton

  Birthday, Thinking, Wrinkles

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• All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Nihilism, Sin, Virtue

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.549, Modern Library

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• We really think it is a good thing for scientists to spend a little bit of their time either in the community or in schools or helping to train high school teachers.

  Thomas Cech

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "Funding above and beyond scientific research". EMBO reports interview, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. September 15, 2001.

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• Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.

  Olga Korbut

  Thank You, Years, Thank God

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• The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.401

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• I think spirituality is a good thing but I dislike any sort of dogmatic organization.

  Noah Taylor

  Thinking, Organization, Spirituality

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

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• I was a catastrophe at Science and Games, but the good thing about Quaker schools is that they encourage you in those subjects for which you show an aptitude.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Encouragement, School, Games

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• This soldiering thing sadly deadens that very good thing, humanity.

  Lew Wallace

  Military, War, Humanity

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• When life is hard it's easy to focus only on the bad things and forget all about the good things God has given us. But God has blessed every one of us in ways we often overlook.

  Billy Graham

  Blessed, Life Is Hard, Focus

  "Can God Help Me Be Thankful?" by Billy Graham, www.arcamax.com. November 28, 2013.

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• All good things vanish in less than a day, Peace, plenty, pleasure, suddenly decay Go not yet away, bright soul of the sad year, The earth is hell when you leav'st to appear.

  Thomas Nash

  Years, Soul, Decay

  Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”

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• Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

  William Penn

  Disappointment, Father, Fall

  William Penn (1830). “The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Or, Those ... Doctrines of One God Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons, the Impossibility of God's Pardoning Sinners Without a Plenary Satisfaction, the Justification of Impure Persons by an Imputative Righteousness, Refuted from the Authority of Scripture Testimonies and Right Reason, Etc”, p.6

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• The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Mistake, Knows, Cringe

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• Nature and literature are subjective phenomena; every evil and every good thing is a shadow which we cast

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Evil, Shadow, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.487, Library of America

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• Therefore we pledge to bind
  ourselves to one another, to embrace
  our lowliest, to keep company with
  our loneliest, to educate our illiterate,
  to feed our starving, to clothe our
  ragged, to do all good things,
  knowing that we are more than
  keepers of our brothers and sisters.
  We are our brothers and sisters

  Maya Angelou

  Brother, Knowing, Giving

  Maya Angelou, “The Black Family Pledge”

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