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Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus

Good, Wrong, Means

It's not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even - or rather, especially - when we'd prefer not to be.
Josh Radnor

Judge, Kindness, Job

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.
Anthony Kiedis

Art, Mind, Actually

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
Bryant H. McGill

Read, Curiosity, Satisfy

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jimmy Carter

Life, Peace, Blessings

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
Dave Brubeck

Great, Understand, Able

Hemingway was really early. I probably started reading him when I was just eleven or twelve. There was just something magnetic to me in the arrangement of those sentences. Because they were so simple - or rather they appeared to be so simple, but they weren't.
Joan Didion

Simple, Him, Reading

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
Chinua Achebe

Create, Stories

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Against, Hurts

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.
Brandon Routh

Best, Grateful, Makes

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.
Mick Jagger

Mother, She, Unhappy

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.
Jean de La Fontaine

Die, Motto, Suffer

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
Robert Browning

Before, Old, Perhaps

I believe I would rather have Stieglitz like something - anything I had done - than anyone else I know.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Done, Else, Anyone

I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J. D. Salinger

God, Human, Old

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.
Lenny Bruce

Time, Give, Enough

I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.
Larry David

Find, Quiet, Shout

I'd rather play a character that was really, really different to me as to someone who is quite close to my character.
Tom Felton

Character, Someone, Different

I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.
Jack Nicholson

Fear, Person, Public

An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.
Andrew Lang

Support, Statistics, Drunken

I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult and decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have.
Terry Pratchett

Best, Insult, Against

I believe it should be possible for someone stricken with a serious and ultimately fatal illness to choose to die peacefully with medical help, rather than suffer.
Terry Pratchett

Medical, Help, Someone

I think most artists would be happy to have bigger audiences rather than smaller ones. It doesn't mean that they are going to change their work in order necessarily to get it, but they're happy if they do get it.
Brian Eno

Change, Work, Happy

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.
Clarence Darrow

Friend, Working

I don't think of myself as unbreakable. Perhaps I'm just rather flexible and adaptable.
Aung San Suu Kyi

Perhaps, Flexible, Adaptable

I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
Charles Lindbergh

Choose, Realized, Birds

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

Give, Sometimes, Books

Having money is rather like being a blond. It is more fun but not vital.
Mary Quant

Money, Fun, Blond

We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Emile M. Cioran

Country, Language, Inhabit

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