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Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.
Roger Babson

Knowledge, Health, Money

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
Robin Wright Penn

Health, Happy, Feeling

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Experience, Gone, Useful

Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
Tallulah Bankhead

Time, Bad, Keep

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.
John Sununu

Positive, Government, Talk

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.
Deepak Chopra

Health, Care, Real

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh

Picture, Deed, Equivalent

Edible, adj.: Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce

Eat, Snake, Pig

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Tell, Nation, Public

What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce

War, Patriotism, Hard

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Richard Dawkins

Design, Evil, Nothing

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton Jordan

Great, Graduation, Bad

The beginning of a friendship, the fact that two people out of the thousands around them can meet and connect and become friends, seems like a kind of magic to me. But maintaining a friendship requires work. I don't mean that as a bad thing. Good art requires work as well.
Charles de Lint

Friendship, Work, Art

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater

Christian, Kick, Ought

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Evil, Away, Labor

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.
James Young

Smile, Rock, Writing

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.
John Ruskin

Time, Strong, Try

I feel beautiful when I'm at peace with myself. When I'm serene, when I'm a good person, when I've been considerate of others.
Elle Macpherson

Peace, Beautiful, Person

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

True, Someone, Friend

It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis Diller

Beauty, Deep, Skin

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline.
William Hague

Truth, Sense, Afraid

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
Ovid

Sympathy, Sorrow, Prove

My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Lenny Kravitz

Mother, True, Everything

God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Ramakrishna

God, Serve, Manifest

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.
Jude Law

Jealousy, Live, Mean

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