Ben Goldacre
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Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greate... 
I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the s... 
Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it, you'd have good people doing good things... 
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love,... 
I think we have six people who are really sort of OK. They are all good people. We don't have bad pe... 
Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do.... 
I don't know why we're not interested in seeing good people. I think we like seeing good peo... 
Good people can do bad things, make bad decisions. It doesn't make them bad people. 
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they'... 
I'm a bad loser, but I'm not a good winner either - I like to rub it in people's faces! 
Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip t... 
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I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to dr... 
I know that some people have different personas for the different things they do, and I'm not cr... 
I know I may have done some bad things, but I'm not a bad person. 
Part of what any good health-care professional does, including an advanced-practice nurse, is know w... 
Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad thi... 
The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad th... 
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Life - the way it really is - is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. 
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A pauper traveller will sing before a beggar. 
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Poor worms, they hiss at me, whilst I at home
Can be contented to applaud myself, . . . with joy
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Happiness is a journey not a destination. 
No one will do it for you. 
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