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- You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
- The more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.
- Peter McWilliams, Life 101
- A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign, 1999
- Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.
- Victoria Holt
- When life seems chaotic, you don't need people giving you easy answers or cheap promises. There might not be any answers to your problems. What you need is a safe place where you can bounce with people who have taken some bad hops of their own.
- Gordon Atkinson, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 12, 2003
- Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action.
- Anna Lappe, O Magazine, June 2003
- Perhaps better we not obscure the idea that happiness and misery, kindness and greed, and good works and bad deeds are within the capacities of us all, not merely a select few.
- David P. Mikkelson, snopes.com, September 8, 2003
- [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth, plain and simple.
- Chuck Sigars, The World According to Chuck weblog, September 30, 2003
- I love life...Yeah, I'm sad, but at the same time, I'm really happy that something could make me feel that sad. It's like...It makes me feel alive, you know. It makes me feel human. The only way I could feel this sad now is if I felt something really good before. So I have to take the bad with the good. So I guess what I'm feeling is like a beautiful sadness.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park, Raisins, 2003
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