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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion.
The several sects perform the office of a Censor -
over each other.
- Thomas Jefferson
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I am still amazed at how big, how enormous
a love and mystery God is -
and how small are the minds
that attempt to corral
this life force into rules and taboos,
cults and sects.
- Bono
Almost any sect, cult, or religion will
legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power.
- Robert A. Heinlein
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion
will legislate its creed into law
if it acquires the political power to do so,
and will follow it by suppressing opposition,
subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young,
and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
- Robert Heinlein
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the world
with a broader significance
than the narrow association of
members in a sect or creed.
- Helen Keller
The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity.
Without it, no real success is possible,
no matter whether it is on a section gang,
a football field, in an army, or in an office.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city
is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme.
Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful.
Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just.
Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
- Lao Tzu
The supreme art of war is
to subdue the enemy without fighting.
- Sun Tzu
I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison
The supreme happiness of life
is the conviction of being loved for yourself,
or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.
- Victor Hugo
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy
in creative expression and knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare
Far from idleness being the root of all evil,
it is rather the only true good.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If I am not for myself,
who will be for me?
Yet if I am for myself alone,
of what good am I?
- Hillel
Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
Good things come in small packages.
- old proverb
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
- Abraham Lincoln
To kill an error is as good a service as,
and sometimes even better than,
the establishing of a new truth or fact.
- Charles Darwin
Many a man fails as an original thinker
simply because his memory is too good.
- Nietzsche
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An ounce of conscious choice is worth a pound of good fortune.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
A good example is the best sermon.
- Benjamin Franklin
Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care
for people will hear them and be influenced
by them for good or ill.
- The Buddha
A good question is never answered.
It is not a bolt to be tightened into place
but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed
toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.
- John Ciardi
It is not enough to have a good mind,
the main thing is to use it well.
- Rene Descartes
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb
A good head and a good heart
are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
About morals: I know only that
what is moral is what you feel good after
and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
- Ernest Hemingway
Anyone who proposes to do good
must not expect people to roll stones out of his way,
but must accept his lot calmly,
even if they roll a few stones upon it.
- Albert Schweitzer
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure
in doing good to another.
- Thomas Jefferson
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
"Good morning!" he said at last.
"We don't want any adventures here, thank you!
You might try over The Hill or across The Water."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
There is more value in a very good painting
that is completed and on display,
than in an excellent painting
that is still in the artist's studio,
or perhaps still in his mind.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In spite of everything, I still believe
that people are really good at heart.
I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation
consisting of confusion, misery and death.
- Anne Frank
The bad news is time flies.
The good news is you're the pilot.
- Michael Althsuler
Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin
Necessity never made a good bargain.
- Benjamin Franklin
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer
Do not be too moral.
You may cheat yourself out of much life.
So aim above morality.
Be not simply good;
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Fighting not good. But if must fight... win.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
This time, like all times, is a very good one,
if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
Be not merely good; be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
We see what we ASSUME we will see.
If you believe the world is evil, you will see evil.
If you believe the world is good, you will see good.
To change how life looks, change how you see life -
change your expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not interested in power for power's sake,
but I'm interested in power that is moral,
that is right and that is good.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Good Endings precede Good Beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Bad times have a scientific value.
These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When one has the feeling of dislike for evil,
when one feels tranquil,
one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings;
when one has these feelings and appreciates them,
one is free of fear.
- The Buddha
Good humor is the health of the soul,
sadness is its poison.
- Lord Chesterfield
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression
and cruelty by the bad people
but the silence over that by the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is a good ear, in some men,
that draws supplies to virtue
out of very indifferent nutriment.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
A man's good name is his best monument
- from an old churchyard at Lockerbie, Scotland
Aim above morality.
Be not simply good,
be good for something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
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