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John Barrymore

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

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To improve or excel, you must be willing to take risks and make mistakes without fear. True skill develops when you accept that failure is part of the learning process.

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.