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• True, but if it’s good it’s going be so very, very good.

  Jay Crownover

  Ifs

  Jay Crownover (2015). “The Marked Men Series Books 1–6: Rule, Jet, Rome, Nash, Rowdy, Asa”, p.120, HarperCollins UK

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• The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.

  Dylan Moran

  Thinking, People, Care

  "This much I know". Interview with Ursula Kenny, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2004.

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• If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sunday, Shapes, Worship

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• When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

  Conor Maynard

  Years, Records, Tests

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

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• I did gymnastics when I was a kid. I wasn't very good at it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Kids, Gymnastics

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• My opinion changes rapidly - one minute I can think it is very good and the next time I look at it, I see all the flaws and weaknesses therein.

  Charles Gounod

  Thinking, Weakness, Looks

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• I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.

  CM Punk

  Hero, Guitar, Wwe

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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• Did you play? It sounded very good.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Play, Orchestra

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• I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.

  Laura Mennell

  Hands, Opposites, Trying

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• Every good teacher and every good parent has somehow learned to negotiate the paradox of freedom and discipline. We want our children and our students to become people who think and live freely, yet at the same time we know that helping them become free requires us to restrict their freedom in certain situations.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Children, Freedom

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.87, John Wiley & Sons

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• We must take the good with the bad; For the good when it's good, is so very good That the bad when it's bad can't be bad!

  Moliere

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• Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.

  E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Life, Way, Good Company

  "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.

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• Your actions in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Good Life, Action, Good Work

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• If health and a fair day smile upon me, I am a very good fellow; if a corn trouble my toe, I am sullen, out of humor, and inaccessible.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Corn, Toes, Sullen

  Michel de Montaigne (1908). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

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• I think sometimes parents and teachers fail to stretch kids. My mother had a very good sense of how to stretch me just slightly outside my comfort zone.

  Temple Grandin

  Mother, Teacher, Kids

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• As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Risk, Innovation, India

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• The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

  Saint Augustine

  Humility, Pride, Hands

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• Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavors, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is God. If the God of the Bible exists, and there is a True Reality beneath and behind this one, and this life is not the only life, then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling, can matter forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Reality, Differences, Forever

  "Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work".

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• David Boreanaz is actually a very good director and he directed one of our episodes. Excellent director, knew exactly what he wanted. We never had long days with David. He was great, he knew exactly what he wanted and he's a fantastic director.

  Michael Clarke

  Long, Directors, Excellent

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• Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.

  Mother Teresa

  Jesus, Suffering, Redemption

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• It is said that truth comes from the mouths of fools and children: I wish every good mind which feels an inclination for satire would reflect that the finest satirist always has something of both in him.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Children, Sarcasm, Mind

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 157, 1799.

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• Just see how it glints and sparkles. Of course it is a nucleus and focus of crime. Every good stone is. They are the devil

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Focus, Devil, Nucleus

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All the best stories about Sherlock Holmes”, p.352, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• I caddied for a guy who was a very good player, and he gave me a set of clubs, just a starter set: 5-iron, 7-iron, 9-iron, putter and driver. I just loved it. How I developed my swing was to just grab a club and start banging balls.

  Fred Couples

  Player, Swings, Iron

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• It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.

  Jack Nicholson

  Want, Dinner, Certain

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

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