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Quote by Thomas Paine
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderati

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice. – Thomas Paine

Other quotes by Thomas Paine

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. – Thomas Paine

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War
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Thomas Paine
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The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection. – Thomas Paine

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smile
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Thomas Paine
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A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains. – Maxim Gorky

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Im not in the leftist controlled Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of my political views, primarily my lifelong militant support of the NRA, the Second Amendment, and my belief that the only good bad guy is a dead bad guy. – Ted Nugent

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good

Whats the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another? – Marilyn Monroe

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The evil that men do lives after them the good is oft interred with their bones. – William Shakespeare

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Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James

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No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods. – Demosthenes

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Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. – John Portman

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I like England more than I did when I left. Its become a bit of a better country in the last ten years, in the attitude of it. A bit more Americanized, which is both good and bad. At least when you order a cup of coffee they dont give you a hard time. – Teddy Thompson

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Attitude