- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good Quotes
Quotes on what it means to be good.
This page rounds up quotes using 'good' in different senses - the simplicity behind good mathematical solutions, the self-importance that can come with good intellectual work, and a wry line about baseball being kinder after retirement. Related pages include Good Luck Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
From a very early age I had imbibed the opinion that it was every man's duty to do all that lay in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
American history and the black experience are inextricable. And both are inextricable from policing. Far more often than not, that's been a good thing.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
- Chicken
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times.
- First Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're not getting a good return on investment on all that money we're pumping into the intelligence community. One of the first things I would suggest is that if there's an attack and they fail to stop it or to alert us before it happens, that we ought to start cutting their budget, and for every attack they should lose ten percent of their budget.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.
- General Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.
- General Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our passage from the Cape of Good Hope the winds were mostly from the westward with very boisterous weather: but one great advantage that this season of the year has over the summer months is in being free from fogs.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020