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- There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.
- Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
- Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good.
- T. S. Eliot (1888 - 1965)
- The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of good.
- John Locke (1632 - 1704)
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
- Richard M. Nixon (1913 - 1994)
- All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
- Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719)
- The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.
- Marin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love (1963)
- A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to bet better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), Resistance, Rebellion and Death (1960)
- The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
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