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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
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Twitter-lutionaries are good at toppling regimes, but in the Mideast and North Africa, they're losing out to the Islamists, who've built protest movements the old-fashioned way. And in Moscow, the Mink revolutionaries, who are united by Live-Journal but not much else, were easy for Putin to outmaneuver.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's important to remember that, in the 1930s, a lot of people in the West looked at communism as a pretty good idea. That was partly because they didn't know how bad things were on the communist side of the world, but it was also partly because things were bad in the West.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've developed an ideology that what's good for you personally also happens to be good for everyone else, that's quite wonderful because there's no moral tension.
- Defence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you believe in democracy, the overreach of leaders is a good reminder that vigorous public debate and time-consuming due process are not only more fair and more just, but that over the long term they usually produce better government, too.
- Capitalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
A general charge of crony capitalism is easy to make. But dividing the 'bad' crony capitalists from the 'good' innovative entrepreneurs is much harder to do. And sorting them out without creating a new group of crony capitalists may be the hardest thing of all.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people are good at too many things. And when you say someone is focused, more often than not what you actually mean is they're very narrow.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wasn't a bad basketball player, but I was far from the world's greatest. Good defense, no offense - that was me.
- Celebrations
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- Nov 07, 2020
They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I'll be honest, I'm not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on two coach seats.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020