If a tree falls in a forest and no one laughs, then you've killed a perfectly good tree for nothing.
He showed a volatile ambivalence toward his oldest son, whom he dubbed Good-for-nothing.
And speaking of (me) being nuts, yes, I do want to hear about the awful (stupid, incompetent, lazy, good-for-nothing) commericial bankers you have dealt with.
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Shareholders need to draw the proper lesson from these episodes: the condition for good returns is nothing less than their eternal vigilance.
These hires "can do nothing but good for this company, " says Peters.
Perhaps that is nothing but good news for a franchise that had little going for it after making blockbuster acquisitions last season.
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But nothing was ever good enough for her and she felt surrounded by traitors.
Finally, to paraphrase the almost 300 year-old wisdom of Edmund Burke, the only way for evil to triumph is for good men and women to do nothing.
"For him it's good to say nothing, " Nadal said, in translated comments.
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The mere mention that Congress is reviewing an extender is good for a fundraiser or two, to say nothing of helping fill the coffers of the lobbyists who are often themselves ex-members or former Hill staffers.
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The theory is, do nothing, take credit for the good times and everybody gets re- elected.
For investors, it sounds like nothing but good news: Vanguard announced Tuesday that it is latest large broker to let clients trade its exchange-traded funds without incurring any commission charges.
If nothing else, some serious competition will be good for the rest of this wild and sad market.
In a recent interview with the Hill, a newspaper that focuses on Congress, Robert Gibbs, the president's press secretary, lamented that nothing Mr Obama did would ever be good enough for some on the left.
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It was a good tactic by Bangladesh, but there was nothing in this pitch for Swann and I'm sure he will come back well in the second Test at Old Trafford, which starts on Friday.
It's a damaging blow for the Knicks, who loaded up on veteran big men this season but have now lost two of them for good in Kurt Thomas and Wallace, and have gotten almost nothing from Marcus Camby.
Although these are common across the U.S., with more than 88 million members and a good reputation for low-rate consumer loans, they have traditionally had almost nothing to do with lending for private education.
This is a lovely title developed by a few passionate people and which is reminiscent of the good old days, when players were crawling for hours within virtual dungeons with nothing but a mouse and keyboard to save them.
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Nothing about my life these days makes me an especially good candidate for having a dog.
Failing to invest in the potential of young people who want nothing more than to find a good job is a wasted opportunity for growth.
"I think that it's a good news story, when we've had probably nothing but bad news stories for the last 20 years really, " he said.
But Russia, China and France have all warned against that - arguing that the use of force would solve nothing and could lead to the expulsion of the UN inspectors for good.
There is nothing like decades of martial law to make a community long for the good times.
For many, there's nothing quite so comforting as cracking open a good book.
"There is nothing wrong with control as long as it's used for the good of the companies, " Redstone says.
Because it involved storing the stuff somewhere in your house or garage until you got around to making a trip down to a local recycling facility, where they paid you maybe pennies on the pound for whatever your household had accumulated, or maybe they paid you nothing but good feelings.
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"But doing nothing is not a good solution, " says Rus Halsey, director of operations for Greenpath Debt Solutions, a nonprofit debt counseling company.
Its "tax cuts for 95% of the American people" are the tax-rebate equivalent of the ancient machine-politics practice of handing out free turkeys at holiday time--nice gesture, but it does nothing to increase incentives for productive work, risk- taking and success, good things achieved by cuts in tax rates.
Despite what critics say, they are in fact far better than nothing, and are a good first step into the U.S. labor market for immigrants.
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