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How to use the word no-good in a Sentence? Page #660

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Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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We should manage our fortunes as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

J. K. Rowling

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

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Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last.

William Graham Sumner

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There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes

Stuart Stevens

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You can be confident and secure and know that you do a good job at what you do. But you don't know to be arrogant about it.

Ruben Studdard

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You have to learn that if you start making sure you feel good, everything will be okay.

Ruben Studdard

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I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought What the hell good would that do

Ronnie Shakes

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Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.

George Saunders

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I feel sorry for people who do not drink. When they wake up in the morning it is as good as they are going to feel all day.

Frank Sinatra

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Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow them.

Madame de Stael

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Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

Arthur Stringer

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It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

Cornelius Tacitus

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The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

J. Arthur Thomson

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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

Donald Trump

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A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.

Martin Tupper

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A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing.

John Tillotson

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There is no mystery, at least not the kind you want. In real life there are no fogbound moors or clues on matchbooks or fifth columnists waiting to be unmasked. it would be nice if here were, because then there would be solutions to things in life, but it doesn't always work that way. Everyone likes a good detective story. I went through my Hammett phase in college. I think the attraction is, in life our mysteries aren't exciting. You know They're just intractable and depressing and enervating. Like, why do we always hurt the ones we love. Where does the money go ...in a detective story, at least the universe makes sense. It was him. He did it. The natural order is disturbed, but the beauty of it is that it's restored again.

Rogers Turrentine

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To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart.

Phyllis Theroux

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Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Evelyn Underhill

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One of the few good things about modern times If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

Kurt Vonnegut

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