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Goodness Quotes (page 293)

If you were an atheist, Birbal," the Emperor challenged his first minister, "what would you say to the true believers of all the great religions of the world?" Birbal was a devout Brahmin from Trivikrampur, but he answered unhesitatingly, "I would say to them that in my opinion they were all atheists as well; I merely believe in one god less than each of them." "How so?" the Emperor asked. "All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own," said Birbal. ... Salman Rushdie
Anne Frank quote: "Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart."
Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart. Anne Frank
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices. George Bernard Shaw
You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth. “Sticking with your family is what makes it a family. Mitch Albom
mysterious money had stood to him as the symbol of earthly good, and the immediate object of toil. He had seemed to love it little in the years when every penny had its purpose for him; for he loved the purpose then. But now, when all purpose was gone, that habit of looking towards the money and grasping it with a sense of fulfilled effort made a loam that was deep enough for the seeds of desire. George Eliot
this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others, Plato
Thomas More quote: "A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes..."
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him. Thomas More
Dodie Smith quote: "Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper."
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper. Dodie Smith
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction. Anne Frank
No seventeenth-century pedagogue would have publicly advised his disciple, as did Erasmus in his Dialogues, on the choice of a good prostitute. Michel Foucault
[S]ometimes, when you are a food person, the possible irrelevance of what you are doing doesn’t cross your mind until it’s too late. (Once, for example, when I was just starting out in the food business, I was hired by the caper people to develop a lot of recipes using capers, and it was weeks of tossing capers into just about everything but milkshakes before I came to terms with the fact that nobody really likes capers no matter what you do with them. Some people pretend to like capers, but... Nora Ephron
But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating. John Fowles
If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer. Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also..."
A good author possesses not only his own intellect, but also that of his friends Friedrich Nietzsche
He'd always liked women who'd talk back to him just a little bit. "Girls with balls" were good. Women with an actual mind of their own who could prove him wrong in something were, of course, castrating bitches who should be drowned in bottomless wells. Warren Ellis

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