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Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? — John Guare
I learned then that practically no one in the world is entirely bad or entirely good, and that motives are often more important than actions. — Eleanor Roosevelt
"It's better to give than to receive." Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in… — T. Harv Eker
Whenever we depart from voluntary cooperation and try to do good by using force, the bad moral value of force triumphs over good intentions. — Milton Friedman
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited, if there is… — Milton Friedman
If men be good, government cannot be bad. — William Penn
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. — Seneca the Younger
I'm not going to pontificate and tell you to execute your government at dawn, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. — John Lydon
You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything… — Harry Browne
Abuse of power isn't limited to bad guys in other nations. It happens in our own country if we're not vigilant. — Clint Eastwood
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand
To say that a bad government must be established for fear of anarchy is really saying that we should kill ourselves for fear of dying. — Richard Henry Lee
Whatever results you're getting, be they rich or poor, good or bad, positive or negative, always remember that your outer world is simply a reflection… — T. Harv Eker
...the question undoubtedly is, or soon will be, not whether or no we shall employ notation in chemistry, but whether we shall use a bad… — William Whewell
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end. — Paul Erdos
We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the sins of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not… — David Sarnoff
It is not so bad being ignorant if you are totally ignorant; the hard thing is knowing in some detail the reality of ignorance... — Lewis Thomas
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and… — Albert Einstein

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