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- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
- Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - ), Parliament of Whores (1991)
- Good plans shape good decisions. That's why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
- Lester R. Bittel, The Nine Master Keys of Management
- It is a good idea to be ambitious, to have goals, to want to be good at what you do, but it is a terrible mistake to let drive and ambition get in the way of treating people with kindness and decency. The point is no that they will then be nice to you. It is that you will feel better about yourself.
- Robert Solow
- You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
- Lou Holtz
- Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
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