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• Goodness comes from within… Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

  Anthony Burgess

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• And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

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• When all is said and done, the greatest satisfaction you’ll have in this life as you grow old will be seeing your children grow in righteousness and faith and goodness as citizens of the society of which they are a part.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

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• Plato stands for the union of truth and goodness in the supreme idea of God.

  James M. Baldwin

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• My Meema, her favorite show was ‘Dallas.’ She made the family watch. She loved to hate J.R. She passed away when I was 12, and I know she’s looking down on me going, ‘Oh, my goodness. How are you on the show? I am so proud of you and why in the hell are you playing J.R.’s son?’

  Josh Henderson

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  Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character; and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

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  For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, For love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Do you know how hard it is to play a character where you’re always in heels? Oh, my goodness!

  Serinda Swan

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  You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you.

  Eckhart Tolle

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  When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.

  James Maury Henson

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• For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

  Joyce Cary

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• I love Frank Capra. He believed in the goodness of people and one man’s ability to fight and often triumph.

  Tom Shadyac

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• Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

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• Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

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• Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

  Charles Baudelaire

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• More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

  George Saunders

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• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

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• I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

  Veronica Roth

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• A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It’s not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

  Dennis Potter

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