„You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.“
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikaandersen/2013/12/02/23-quotes-from-warren-buffett-on-life-and-generosity/ "23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity" forbes.com (02 December 2013)
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— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), pp. 74-75

— Martin Luther seminal figure in Protestant Reformation 1483 - 1546
Source: The Freedom of a Christian (1520), p. 76

„You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about
yourself.“
— Robin S. Sharma Canadian self help writer 1965

— Robert Kuttner American journalist 1943
Source: The Economic Illusion (1984), Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 16

„I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets.“
— Alexander Pope eighteenth century English poet 1688 - 1744
Preface.
The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope (1717)
Context: I think a good deal may be said to extenuate the fault of bad Poets. What we call a Genius, is hard to be distinguish'd by a man himself, from a strong inclination: and if his genius be ever so great, he can not at first discover it any other way, than by giving way to that prevalent propensity which renders him the more liable to be mistaken.
„This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.“
— Rufus M. Jones American writer 1863 - 1948
Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)
Context: The Inner Light is the doctrine that there is something Divine, "something of God," in the human soul.
Five words are used indiscriminately to name this Divine something: "The Light," "The Seed," "Christ within," "The Spirit," "That of God in you." This Divine Seed is in every person good or bad.
— Frederick Herzberg American psychologist 1923 - 2000
Source: The motivation to work, 1959, p. 82

„No deal will be a very bad deal.“
— Michel Barnier French politician 1951
Deadlock over UK's Brexit bill, says EU's Michel Barnier https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41585430 BBC News (12 October 2017)
2017

„Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.“
— Nick Hornby, book A Long Way Down
Source: A Long Way Down

„Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.“
— Scott Westerfeld American science fiction writer 1963

— Bill Maher American stand-up comedian 1956
Source: Sen. Chris Coons and Caitlin Flanagan, Natural Immunity, (2021)