"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

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"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest."

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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."

Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet

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"Everybody likes a compliment."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction."

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"Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"It's also a question of finding good material and interesting roles. I'm not the only actress out there, and good parts just don't fall into your lap that easily. But I like most of the films I've made recently and so I'm pretty positive about the future."

Winona Ryder, American Actress

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"The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world."

Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"That's what makes Linux so good: you put in something, and that effort multiplies. It's a positive feedback cycle."

Linus Torvalds, Finnish Businessman

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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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Kiana Tom, American Model

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"The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great."

William John Wills, English Scientist

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"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

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"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

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"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

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"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

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"There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency and a virtue and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency and a vice."

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"An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere."

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"He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."

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"The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."

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"Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"

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