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- If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
- Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677), The Ethics
- An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Pudd'nhead Wilson
- Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
- Orson Scott Card (1951 - ), Ender's Game
- People are simply incapable of prolonged, sustained goodness.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Do The Right Thing, 1992
- No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience? Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug! Howl the eternal yes!
- Stuart Stevens, Northern Exposure, Jules et Joel, 1991
- The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- Until and unless you discover that money is the root of all good, you ask for your own destruction. When money ceases to become the means by which men deal with one another, then men become the tools of other men. Blood, whips and guns--or dollars. Take your choice--there is no other.
- Ayn Rand (1905 - 1982), Atlas Shrugged
- The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty
- There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947)
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