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

  Veronica Roth

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• Christmas is a stocking stuffed with sugary goodness.

  Mo Rocca

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• But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want goodness. I want sin.

  Aldous Huxley

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• Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

  Robert A. Heinlein

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• Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take ‘Swan Lake,’ the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they’re turning not just 32 fouettes – but double or triple pirouettes.

  Natalia Makarova

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• We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

  Desmond Tutu

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• I had some really dear friends who died from AIDS-one in particular. His family wasn’t around and he didn’t have many friends. I spent a lot of time with him in his later days.

  Ed Harris

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• Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

  Athenaeus

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• In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.

  Edward Bond

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• What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.

  Leo Tolstoy

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