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A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that. Bertrand Russell
Otis Criblecoblis quote: "Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh,..."
Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it. Otis Criblecoblis
Has anyone ever told you," I said, "that you coalesce reality?"No. They only say that I'm good in the sack."They are accurate but limited," I said. "And if you give me their names I'll kill them. Robert B. Parker
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes. Robert Bolt
Jose Rizal quote: "One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good..."
One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again. Jose Rizal
Abraham Maslow quote: "He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a..."
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. Abraham Maslow
schools assume that children are not interested in learning and are not much good at it, that they will not learn unless made to, that they cannot learn unless shown how, and that the way to make them learn is to divide up the prescribed material into a sequence of tiny tasks to be mastered one at a time, each with it's approrpriate 'morsel' and 'shock.' And when this method doesn't work, the schools assume there is something wrong with the children -- something they must try to diagnose and... John Holt
You think that your laws correct evil - they only increase it. There is but one way to end evil - by rendering good for evil to all men without distinction. Leo Tolstoy
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
William S. Burroughs quote: "You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get..."
You need a good bedside manner with doctors or you will get nowhere. William S. Burroughs
Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers. Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. Charles Dickens
You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue. Mitch Albom
A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. C. S. Lewis
I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling, are as likely to exist in their hearts as in those of the best born. My duty will be to develop these germs: surely I shall find some happiness in discharging that office. Charlotte Bronte

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