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- Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.
- Groucho Marx (1890 - 1977)
- How good bad music and bad reasons sound when we march against an enemy.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone
- John Maynard Keynes (1883 - 1946)
- There is nothing more practical than a good theory.
- Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, quoted in V Rich, Nature, 1977, 270, pp470-1
- The real question of government versus private enterprise is argued on too philosophical and abstract a basis. Theoretically, planning may be good. But nobody has ever figured out the cause of government stupidity and until they do (and find the cure) all ideal plans will fall into quicksand.
- Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
- We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists. And however futile each individual act of courage or generosity, self-sacrifice or grace-it still proves the thing exists. Each act adds to the fund. It needs replenishment. Not only because evil flourishes, and is, most indefensibly, defended. But because goodness is no longer a respectable aim in life. The hound of hell, envy, has driven it from the house.
- Josephine Hart, "Sin"
- A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005)
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