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- A good home must be made, not bought.
- Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs"
- Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
- Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
- Muhammad Ali (1942 - ), "More Than a Hero"
- I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.
- Sam Donaldson (1934 - )
- A good friend of my son's is a son to me.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, Ethan of Athos, 1986
- Acceptance is not a state of passivity or inaction. I am not saying you can't change the world, right wrongs, or replace evil with good. Acceptance is, in fact, the first step to successful action. If you don't fully accept a situation precisely the way it is, you will have difficulty changing it. Moreover, if you don't fully accept the situation, you will never really know if the situation should be changed.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- You have to be careful who you let define your good.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
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