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- Be warned against all 'good' advice because 'good' advice is necessarily 'safe' advice, and though it will undoubtedly follow a sane pattern, it will very likely lead one into total sterility--one of the crushing problems of our time.
- Jules Feiffer (1929 - )
- If you do a good job for others,
you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906 - 1945)
- ...the goodness of the will depends on the intention of the end.
- Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274), Summa Theologica
- I guess staying up late is good preparation for sweet dreams.
- Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005
- Junkies might be easy to knock down, but they're never fragile. They have souls like old leather shoes studded with steel, and they're about as much good as friends.
- Scott Westerfeld, The Last Days, 2006
- Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate.
- Anthony Burgess (1917 - 1993)
- The truth is, marijuana probably isn't going to make you kill people. Most likely isn't going to fund terrorists, but pot makes you feel fine with being bored and it's when you're bored that you should be learning a new skill or some new science or being creative. If you smoke pot you may grow up to find out that you're not good at anything.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, My Future Self n' Me, 2002
- It does not always follow that good men are good fathers.
- Kathryn L. Nelson, Pemberley Manor, 2006
- Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine -- how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beautified Strawberry.
- John Keats (1795 - 1821)
- Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in everything. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc.1
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