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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good writing is like a windowpane.
- Nov 07, 2020
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- Personality
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
- Legs
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- Nov 07, 2020
Four legs good, two legs bad.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mankind is not likely to salvage civilization unless he can evolve a system of good and evil which is independent of heaven and hell.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It has never been a good idea to try to disarm Texans.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have at least learned that the offspring of presidents don't necessarily make good politicians themselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In a meritocracy, actors who act well get good roles. They don't get to be journalists, too - a job that, in a meritocracy, should go to those who do journalism well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Foreign policy exactly suits Obama's strong points as a leader, which turn out not to be giving the masses a clear sense of direction and hope, but instead exercising good judgment on a case-by-case basis while thinking many steps ahead of the present moment.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The hollowing out of the heartland was good for Walmart's bottom line: its slogan might have been an amoral maxim attributed to Lenin - 'The worse, the better.'
- Consistency
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems in America you are stuck with the position you adopted, even when events change, in order to claim absolute consistency. That can't be good.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greece has given Europe the opportunity to fix a defect in the euro zone, that is the fact that we did not have a fiscal union. Now steps have been taken to begin that process. And there is more solidarity from nation to nation, and that is a good thing. That has been Greece's gift to Europe.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew that good people who wanted to be a part of the American dream have become trapped in dependency because the federal government and the state government had made it in their economic interest not to take a job because the benefits that they didn't work were better. I changed that.
- Nov 07, 2020