The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to sho

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. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. – Carl Rogers

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The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country. – Lyn Nofziger

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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. – Marcus Aurelius

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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves. – Lao Tzu

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A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help. – Albert Schweitzer

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