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There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it. — George Eliot
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
With the Internet, the greatest disseminator of bad data and bad information the universe has ever known, it's become impossible to trust any news from… — Harlan Ellison
It's too bad our society isn't further along. — Sally Ride
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand. — George Henry Lewes
And here one must not that hatred is acquired just as much by means of good actions as by bad ones; and so, as I… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his… — Saul Bellow
Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant. — Pim Fortuyn
Every punch was thrown with bad intentions. — Mike Tyson
People tend to believe the bad rather than the good. — Giovanni Boccaccio
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need… — Clarence Thomas
The 'wall of separation between church and state' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to… — William Rehnquist
Look, the president can discharge all 93 U.S. attorneys for no reason at all, but not for a bad reason. — Arlen Specter
At this time the fashion is to bring something to jazz that I reject. They speak of freedom. But one has no right, under pretext… — Thelonious Monk
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal… — Kevin Henkes
My filmmaking education consisted of finding out what filmmakers I liked were watching, then seeing those films. I learned the technical stuff from books and… — Paul Thomas Anderson

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