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“Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.”
“Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.”
“Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.”
“To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.”
“That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.”
“Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.”
“Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.”
“You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us...”
“An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.”
“The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.”
“The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.”
“It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.”
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
“Science, as illustrated by the printing press, the telegraph, the railway, is a double-edged sword. At the same moment that it puts an enormous power in the hands of the good man, it also offers an...”
“Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the w...”
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
“There is nothing wrong with good accounting, except that it does not necessarily lead to good science.”
“When I was about 9 years old, I became very interested in the human body and diseases. In general, I was just curious about the world around me. I think that any sort of curiosity as a child is a g...”
“I'm enormously interested to see where neuroscience can take us in understanding these complexities of the human brain and how it works, but I do think there may be limits in terms of what science ...”
“The good thing about L.A. is that there's always someone more famous 100 yards away from me.”
