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"In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad idea."	Douglas Noel Adams
"If I had to choose between putting a saloon or a liberal church on a corner, I'd choose the saloon every time. People who drink up the pay check in the saloon are less likely to become Pharisees, thinking that they don't need the Great Physician, than those who weekly swill the soporific doctrine of man's goodness."	Jay Edward Adams
"You can have anything you want--if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."	William Adams
"Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public."	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno
"I would far rather be ignorant than wise in the foreboding of evil."	Æschylus
"Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin."	Aesop
"In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again: and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life; toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God."	James Agee
"Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth; a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite."	Edward Albee
"Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."	Louisa May Alcott
"It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that."	Alan Alda
"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness."	Alan Alda
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."	Kurt Herbert Alder
"A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice."	Shana Alexander
"Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit."	James Lane Allen
"The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more."	Woody Allen
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"As long as we think we can save ourselves by our own will power, we will only make the evil in us stronger than ever."	Heini Arnold
"From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."	Isaac Asimov
"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."	Athenæus
"We cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all, that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and at the 11th hour something gloriously triumphant will prevent the worst before it happens."	(Justin) Brooks Atkinson
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A. Whitney Griswold	Baltasar Gracian	Benjamin Franklin
Billy Joel	Brad Moore	Buddha
B. J. Gupta	Carl Gustav Jung	Catullus
Charles Dickens	Charles Barkley	Charles Churchill
Charles Robert Darwin	Charles W. Chesnutt	Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood
Confucius	Count Maurice Maeterlink	Dag Hjalmar Agné Carl Hammarskjold
Daniel Defoe	Daniel Patrick Moynihan	Dennis S. Brown
Dorothe Deluzy	Douglas Noel Adams	Dr. Samuel Johnson
Edmund Burke	Edward Albee	Edward Hoch
Elbert Hubbard	Eric Hoffer	Erma Louise Bombeck
Ernest Miller Hemingway	Euripides	Fred Brooks
Friedrich August von Hayek	Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche	Gabrid Garcia Marquez
Garrison Keillor	George	George Burns
Georges Bataille	George Jean Nathan	George Stanley McGovern
George Walker Bush	Gerald R. Ford	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Heini Arnold	Heinrich Heine	Helen Adams Keller
Henry Miller	H(elena) P(etrovna) Hahn Blavatsky	Ingrid Bergman
Isaac Asimov	Isabel Colegate	I Ching
Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts]	Jacob M(orton) Braude	James Agee
James Lane Allen	Jay Leno	Jay Edward Adams
Jean de La Bruyère	Jesse Lair	Jewel
Johathan Edwards	John Andrew Holmes, Jr.	John L. Casteel
Joseph Brodsky	Joseph Conrad	Juliene Berk
Kahlil Gibran	Kim Hubbard	Koran
Kurt Herbert Alder	Laertius Diogenes	Lao-Tzu
Lawton Chiles	Lillian Hellman	Lord Billingsley
Louisa May Alcott	Louis Dembitz Brandeis	Lou Holtz
Lucan	Mandell Creighton	Manly P. Hall
Marcus Aelius Aurelius	Marcus Aurelius Antoninus	Marcus Tullius Cicero
Maria Montessori	Marquis de Sade	Martin Luther
Martin Luther King, Jr.	Mary Ellen Kelly	Maurice Chevalier
Maxim Gorky	Max Born	Max Lerner
Mignon McLaughlin	Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Mort Crim	Napolean Bonaparte	Napolean Hill
Paul Aubuchon	Paul William "Bear" Bryant	Raisa M. Gorbachev
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Reinhold Niebuhr	Richard Dawkins
Richard Hofstadter	Richard Jordan	Richard Milhouse Nixon
Richard M. Mathews	Rick Moranis	Rita Mae Brown
Robert Browning	Robert Francis Kennedy	Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole
Rob Gilbert	Russell Wayne Baker	Saint Augustine
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Samuel Butler	Samuel Cunningham
Shana Alexander	Sid Ceaser	Simondes of Ceos
Sir Francis Bacon	Stephen Neill	Susanna Moodie
Tallulah Brockman Bankhead	Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno	Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Hardy	Thomas Jefferson	Thomas Merton
Truman Capote	Tryon Edwards	T. S. Eliot
Victoria Lincoln	Vincent McNabb	Walter Savage Landor
William Blake	William Hazlitt	William Adams
Woody Allen	Wystan Hugh Auden	W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
(Justin) Brooks Atkinson	Æschylus