Charles A. Dana (Charles Anderson Dana) Quotes
All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
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The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao Tzu
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
Oprah Winfrey
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The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
Oprah Winfrey
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Eternity to a child offers goodness, and eternal life to a man is essentially corrupting because it involves a certain amount of vanity to embrace it.
Anna Friel
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Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
Amy Poehler
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The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
Oscar Wilde
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What this does is to turn food into medicine, ... Omega-3's occur naturally in food like fish, chicken and eggs, and plants to a lesser extent. Why do we need to get it from bread?
Marion Nestle
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Reason teaches us that what is good is good for something, and that what is good for nothing is not good at all.
F. H. Bradley
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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
H. L. Mencken
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Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.
Aristotle
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The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws.
Aristotle
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I request you to try to be warm-hearted. I ask this of you because these mental attitudes actually bring us happiness.
Dalai Lama
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If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I warn't never meant to be a lady, I know that now. I got streaks of wildness in me that trip me up every time, and just like streaks in clothes, there's some dirt that just won't wash out.
L.A. Meyer
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The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most importantly, the courage to hold on to our values and protect our hard-won freedoms while doing it.
Nick Clooney
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All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.
Charles A. Dana
