Coretta Scott King
Civil Rights Activist
"Behind every good man, there's a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn't have nothing."
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Good Man
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Robert the Bruce
King
"We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life."
John Muir
Naturalist, Writer
"The United States government has always been proud of the welcome it has extended to good men of every nation, seeking freedom and homes and bread."
Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure."
Blaise Pascal
Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is."
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"Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever."
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"The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves."
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"You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society."
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"We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for all humankind. He gave us a good earth. Let us serve him by helping to preserve it for our children. 'A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children' (Proverbs 13:22 )."
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"The old saying is true, behind every good man theres an incredible woman."
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"A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him."
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"A man cannot do good before he is made good."
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"No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker."
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"I would rather marry a good man, a man of mind, with a hope and bright prospects ahead for position, fame and power than to marry all the houses, gold and bones in the world."
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"The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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"A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love."
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"One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man's laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man."
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"They say a good man is worth fighting for. But a man who's good for YOU shouldn't make you fight just for the right to be in his life."
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"There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men."
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"A new dynasty is never founded without a struggle. Blood makes good manure."
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"The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls."
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"Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave."
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"I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man."
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"A good man always knows his limitations."
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"When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but at home, amongst his new thoughts, doctrines, and modes of reasoning."
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