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#1

“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
― Lemony Snicket

tags: bad, courage, good, lemony-snicket, series-of-unforunate-events

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#2

“Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

tags: bad, liar

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#3

“Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
― Alice Walker

tags: art, bad, good, writing

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#4

“The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”
― Rachel Vincent, My Soul to Save

tags: bad, good, life, memories

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#5

“If I have to beat you up to keep you safe, that’s just what I’ll do. It’s this kind of regard for others that makes me believe I’d be a good politician.”
― Jarod Kintz, The Days of Yay are Here! Wake Me Up When They're Over.

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#6

“That's the pathetic thing about high school. Everyone tries so hard to be something they aren't. It's gotten so I don't know who I am, so how can I even try to be who I am, much less who I'm not?
My problem is that I don't even fit in with the misfits.
I don't fit anywhere.”
― Katie Alender, Bad Girls Don't Die

tags: bad, don-t-die, girls, high-school

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#7

“Save your skin from the corrosive acids from the mouths of toxic people. Someone who just helped you to speak evil about another person can later help another person to speak evil about you.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: acids, bad, corrosive, destroyers, destruction, detractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, food-for-thought, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, insults, israelmore-ayivor, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, skin, toxic-people, trouble

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#8

“People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
― Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire

tags: bad, devil, god, good, religion

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#9

“Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle every day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever

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#10

“The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.”
― Neal Shusterman, UnWholly

tags: bad, good, man, measure, suffering, test

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#11

“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.”
― Roman Payne, Cities & Countries

tags: affections, bad, cities, cities-and-countries, city, good, payne, roman, soul, travel, voyage

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#12

“I'm starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing things that upset each other. We all get cranky, or impatient, or worried, or careless enough to do or say things that hurt someone else. Like it or not, that's normal. We can't blame it all on Olympia's bad energy. The important part is that we feel sorry about what we've done and make up for it. That's something Olympia never did.”
― Jean Ferris, Twice Upon a Marigold

tags: bad, energy, life

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#13

“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?"
They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”
― Sherwood Smith, Crown Duel

tags: bad, good, inspirational, songs

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#14

“A girl's life was defined by lines: fine lines, hairlines, bikini lines, class lines, the tightrope line between being a good girl and a slut. But there was always a moment when the lines blurred and a good girl had to decide whether to toe the line, cross the line, or stay safe behind the line that guarded her virtue.”
― Thea Devine

tags: bad, girl, good

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#15

“Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that some secrets you don't ever want to learn."
Rosethorn: "All you can do is learn good to balance the bad. Learn and do all the good within your reach. Then, if you wake in a sweat, you have something to set against the dream.”
― Tamora Pierce, Street Magic

tags: bad, balance, briar, good, magic, nightmares, rosethorn

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#16

“I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

tags: bad, beauty, good, ugliness

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#17

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#18

“Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: bad, daenerys, daenerys-targaryen, good, people, queen

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#19

“I'm half good and I'm half bad. My mama is a very good girl and my daddy is a very bad boy. And I guess that leaves me somewhere sort of...here.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: bad, bad-boys, good, good-and-evil, humor, humorous-quotations, life, life-and-living

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#20

“I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can’t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can’t believe in it. Things aren’t that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: alive, bad, beauty, books, experience, life, read, stories, ugly

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#21

“I'm often painted as the bad guy, and the artistic part of me wants to hand out the brush.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: acceptance, antagonist, anti-hero, antihero, art, artist, bad, bad-guy, discernment, judgment, misunderstood, painting, perception, perspective, understanding, villain

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#22

“A rock is harder than a feather, you can talk and jabber and make exceptions, but in the end, if you have to choose which one is gonna hit you on the head, you'll choose the feather every single time.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Truth of the Matter

tags: bad, black-and-white, evil, good, good-and-evil, right, wrong

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#23

“I have realized that whatever good comes to me, comes from God, whatever bad comes to me, God has allowed it, and I choose to be thankful for both.”
― Jeff Goins, Wrecked: When a Broken World Slams into your Comfortable Life

tags: bad, god, good, inspirational, motivational, struggles, trials

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#24

“There were some days that deserved to be drowned at birth and everyone sent back to bed with a hot brandy, a box of chocolates and a warm, energetic companion. Today was without question one of those days.”
― Diana Pharaoh Francis, The Cipher

tags: bad, chocolate, days, drowned, humor

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#25

“Normally we divide the external world into that which we consider to be good or valuable, bad or worthless, or neither. Most of the time these discriminations are incorrect or have little meaning. For example, our habitual way of categorizing people as friends, enemies, and strangers depending on how they make us feel is both incorrect and a great obstacle to developing impartial love for all living beings. Rather than holding so tightly to our discriminations of the external world, it would be much more beneficial if we learned to discriminate between valuable and worthless states of mind.”
― Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey

tags: bad, discrimination, enemies, friends, good, mind, strangers, world

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#26

“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out of pride, may claim their own authorities over what constitutes good and evil; they may self-proclaim a keen knowledge of subjective morality through religion or science. But that is only if they are acknowledging the work of evil as a cartoon-like, petty little rain cloud in the sky that merely wants to dampen one's spirits. On the contrary, a man could be without a doubt lit with the strength, the peace, and the knowledge of the gods, his gods, but when or if the devils grow weary in unsuccessful attempts to torment him, they begin tormenting his loved ones, or, if not his loved ones, anyone who may attempt to grasp his philosophies. No matter how godly he may become, God is, in the end, his only hope and his only grace for the pressures built around him - it is left up to a higher authority and a more solid peace and a wider love to eclipse not just one's own evils but all evils for goodness to ultimately matter. If all men were gods, each being would dwell in a separate prison cell, hopeless, before finally imploding into nothingness.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: angels, apologetics, bad, badness, demons, devil, ego, evil, faith, god, good, goodness, grace, hope, hopelessness, humility, love, mercy, morality, peace, philosophy, possession, pride, prison, religion, satan, science, security, sin, spirit-realm, spirits, spiritual, spirituality

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#27

“When someone looks at something they don’t understand and they say, “That could be a good thing, or that could be a bad thing,” they’re just highlighting the fact that they have no clue what they are talking about. Everything in the universe, besides God, could be a good or bad thing.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

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#28

“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Complete Fairy Tales

tags: bad, good

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#29

“Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.”
― Sheri Holman, The Dress Lodger

tags: bad, good-and-evil, greater-good

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#30

“The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: antagonist, anti-hero, antihero, apologetics, bad, challenge, common-sense, devalue, discourage, god, good, greater-good, heart, hero, ideology, insufficient, man, misunderstood, negative, negativity, perception, philosophers, philosophy, positive, positivity, protagonist, righteous, righteousness, stand-up, stress, sufficient, theism, theology, truth, ultimate, value, villain, worldview

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