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- There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Hamlet, Act II, sc. 2
- Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Troilus and Cressida, Act III, sc. 3
- All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
- Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961), Old Newsman Writes, Esquire, December 1934
- Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), An Apology for Idlers, 1874
- When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Politics, book 1, chapter 2
- The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
- John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873), On Liberty, 1859
- There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
- The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holders lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Sceptical Essays, 1961
- Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), Address recorded for the Republican Lincoln Day dinners, January 28, 1964
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