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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of for good or ill in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of for good or ill in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of for good or ill in a Sentence

  1. Louis D. Brandeis:

    Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

  2. Machiavelli:

    I have often thought that the cause of men?s good or ill fortune depends on whether they make their actions fit with the times. A man having prospered by one mode of acting can never be persuaded that it may be well for him to act differently, whence it is that a man?s Fortune varies, because she changes her times and he does not his ways.

  3. Sanford Levinson:

    It seems foolhardy to assume that the armed state will necessarily be benevolent. The American political tradition is, for good or ill, based in large measure on a healthy mistrust of the state.

  4. Epictetus:

    The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

  5. Bruce Burton:

    For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Do they see it well clothed, neat, busineswise?

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