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That's exactly the way parents develop positive, successful kids. Don't look for the flaws, warts, and blemishes. Look for the gold, not for the dirt;… — Zig Ziglar
The more bad choices you make, the less bad your choices seem. — Karen Kingsbury
I've got a prostate the size of a honeydew and a head full of bad memories. — Jerry Stiller
If the Qur'an was the word of God, it had been dictated on a very bad day. — Christopher Hitchens
I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am. — Samuel Johnson
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy,… — Oscar Wilde
To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only… — Howard Zinn
The root cause of poverty is social injustice and the bad government that abets it — Colin Powell
Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in. — Mark Twain
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. — Josh Billings
When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something… — Sylvia Earle
The American character looks always as if it had just had a rather bad haircut, which gives it, in our eyes at any rate, a… — Mary McCarthy
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for… — Moliere
Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read. There is no can't in it, no excess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes… — Rachel Simmons
It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad. — Plutarch
When the world is storm-driven and bad things happen, then we need to know all the strong fortresses of the spirit which men have built… — Edith Hamilton
Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. — Charles Caleb Colton
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
We are not more ingenious in searching out bad motives for good actions when performed by others, than good motives for bad actions when performed… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is nothing so bad but it can masquerade as moral. — Walter Lippmann
To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation. — Marya Mannes
The meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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