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- If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Following the Equator
- I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves.
- Ellen DeGeneres
- The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell (1903 - 1950)
- In the part of this universe that we know there is great injustice, and often the good suffer, and often the wicked prosper, and one hardly knows which of those is the more annoying.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
- One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), "Cold Turkey", In These Times, May 10, 2004
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking
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