Posts tagged: good

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretense that pain is the proper price of any good thing.
Rebecca West, 1892 - 1983
Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.
Type these words into your iTunes library and name the first song that appears.

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I’m pretty sure I did this one other time, but I think it was with different words. I was pretty shocked that “sad” came up with ZERO titles out of over 3,100 songs!

Happy: Makes Me Happy - Undersea Poem

Love: The Things We Do for Love - 10 CC

Hate: I HateThe 80’s - The Vaselines

Light: Red Light - The Strokes

Dark: After Dark - Tito & Tarantula

Good: Good Girls Don’t - The Knack

Bad: Bad Businessman - Squirrel Nut Zippers

Smile: Illegal Smile - John Prine

Cry: When Doves Cry - The Be Good Tanyas

Girl: A Certain Girl - The Yardbirds

Boy: Broken Boy Soldier - The Raconteurs

Sad: *NONE* with “sad” in the title… wow!?

Lost: Moses Don’t Get Lost - The Duhks

Yuraku is the best.

Yuraku is the best.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.
Tryon Edwards, 1809 - 1894
Good questions outrank easy answers.

Paul Samuelson, 1915 - 2009

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How will it end?

How will it end?

Acting’s a good racket. And lets face it, you can’t beat it for the bread.

Steve McQueen, 1930 - 1980

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Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

Wystan Hugh Auden, 1907 - 1973

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