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- Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.
- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ), Is Reality Optional?, 1993
- I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
- Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
- Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Silas Marner (1861)
- Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Weekly Articles (1981), first published 1927
- What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebooks (1935)
- Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure.
- Thorstein Veblen (1857 - 1929), Theory of the Leisure Class (1899)
- Goodbye cruel world.
- Gloria Shayne, Title of song (1961)
- There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Life and Human Nature"
- Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946), Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People"
- Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), Collected poems (1952)
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