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Quotations on the topic of ‘best’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.” -Donald Rumsfeld
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“I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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“You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!” -Marie Corelli
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“I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.” -Dick Wolf
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“The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.” -William Ellery Channing
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“All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That’s what makes theatre live. That’s why it persists.” -Stephen Sondheim
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“Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.” -Hypatia
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“There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.” -Bob Woodward
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“Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.” -P. G. Wodehouse
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“That’s what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, ‘Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out’ – or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.” -Jack White
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“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.” -Charles Lamb
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“America is the best half-educated country in the world.” -Nicholas M. Butler
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“I feel I’d like to share my luck and my life. Being in love is the best thing in the world.” -Susannah York
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“I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.” -Arthur Ashe
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“This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, – to give life’s best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.” -Joshua Chamberlain
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“The middle class is so funny, it’s the class I know best, and it’s the class where you find the most pretension, so that’s what makes the middle classes so funny.” -J. K. Rowling
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“The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.” -Ritchie Blackmore
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“I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.” -Lenny Kravitz
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“I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.” -Josephine Baker
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“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -James Joyce
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“There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes ‘Raise the sail with your stronger hand,’ meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.” -Soichiro Honda
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” -Linus Pauling
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“After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.” -Evelyn Underhill
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“For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn’t. In fact, he’s much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe…
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“We’re not arrogant, we just believe we’re the best band in the world.” -Noel Gallagher
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“One accusation you can’t throw at me is that I’ve always done my best.” -Alan Shearer
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“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” -Michelangelo
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“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.” -Josh Billings
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“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.” -William Osler
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“Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.” -Dale Turner
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“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can’t, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don’t give up.” -Chuck Yeager
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“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.” -Bob Filner
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“If somebody says no to you, or if you get cut, Michael Jordan was cut his first year, but he came back and he was the best ever. That is what you have to have. The attitude that I’m going to show everybody, I’m going to work hard to get better and better.” -Magic Johnson
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“A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.” -Rebecca West
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“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you’re going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.” -Carl Lewis
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“Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.” -John Berger
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“Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.” -Heinrich Heine
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“Reading – the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.” -William Styron
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“I did my best, and God did the rest.” -Hattie McDaniel
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“Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.” -Bruno Bettelheim
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“The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man’s success in life.” -Edward Everett Hale
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“Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow – after you have done your best to achieve success today.” -Maxwell Maltz
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“Proving I’m a good mother is the one achievement I’m most proud of. It’s brought out the best in me.” -Sheena Easton
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“I got a Valentine’s Day card from my girl. It said, ‘Take my heart! Take my arms! Take my lips!’ Which is just like her. Keeping the best part for herself.” -Robert Orben
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“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.” -Harry Callahan
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“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.” -Laurence J. Peter
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“Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it’s the best kind of journalism as long you don’t confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.” -Don Hewitt
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“A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.” -Anthony Hecht
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“It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.” -Janet Jackson
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“A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.” -Stefan Banach
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“My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there’s not build up. I think that’s probably the best way to do it.” -Guy Fieri
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“How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!” -Max Muller
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“Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don’t fully understand that.” -Mike Wallace
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“The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.” -Heraclitus
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“A man’s sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.” -Leland Stanford
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“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.” -W. H. Auden
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“What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.” -Benjamin Spock
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“It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.” -Jean Piaget
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“And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.” -Julie Bishop
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“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.” -Simone Weil
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“I know some people say it’s not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it’s always worked so well for me.” -Kim Kardashian
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“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.” -Miguel de Cervantes
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“Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.” -James Montgomery
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“You can only do your best. That’s all you can do. And if it isn’t good enough, it isn’t good enough.” -Imelda Staunton
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“Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.” -Don Henley
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“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?” -Cesar Chavez
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“Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.” -Mary Astell
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“In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.” -Robert Hall
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“Since I’m always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.” -Chris Brown
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“It’s impossible, I think, however much I’d become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don’t think I’d ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.” -Christopher Hitchens
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“Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.” -Kurt Angle
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“Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.” -John Webster
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“It is best to love wisely, no doubt but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.” -William Makepeace Thackeray
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“From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.” -Christopher Morley
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“There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us… and I will do my best.” -Petra…
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“I’ve always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they’re just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.” -Steve Martin
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“A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don’t want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous ‘girl power’ sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it’s a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind…
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“Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic’s best friend!” -Gerard Way
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“I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!” -Zac Efron
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“When you do something best in life, you don’t really want to give that up – and for me it’s tennis.” -Roger Federer
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“My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.” -Jada Pinkett Smith
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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” -Franklin P. Adams
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“But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.” -Vanessa Kerry
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“The best way to turn a woman’s head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.” -Sacha Guitry
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“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism… to ward off threats to her own security and influence.” -Bernadette Devlin
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“The best protection any woman can have… is courage.” -Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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“The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what’s safe and comfortable.” -Terri Clark
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“Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.” -James Madison
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“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don’t use that ability as best we can.” -George Allen, Sr.
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“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.” -Charles Caleb Colton
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“The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.” -William Hazlitt
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“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.” -A. A. Milne
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“So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.” -Patti LaBelle
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“One of the greatest things drama can do, at it’s best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.” -Ben Kingsley
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“You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.” -Mena Suvari
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“The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.” -Joseph Joubert
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“In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.” -H. G. Wells
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“Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They’re the best girls in the world – they’re loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they’ll try to kill you.” -John Cusack
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“Mechanization best serves mediocrity.” -Frank Lloyd Wright
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“The waste basket is the writer’s best friend.” -Isaac Bashevis Singer
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“My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.” -Kim Elizabeth
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“Laughter is the best medicine – unless you’re diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.” -Jasper Carrott
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“I think that making love is the best form of exercise.” -Cary Grant
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“As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.” -Alice Walker
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“I’ll tell you one thing: Don’t ever give anybody your best advice, because they’re not going to follow it.” -Jack Nicholson
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“The unions say ‘last hired – first fired,’, we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.” -Scott Walker
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“Where I am today… I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.”…
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“The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They’ve taken your Bible away from the schools. They’ve forbidden little children to pray. They’ve taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.” -Pat…
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“The best doctor is the one you run to and can’t find.” -Denis Diderot
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“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.” -W. Edwards Deming
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“A girl’s legs are her best friends… but even the best of friends must part.” -Redd Foxx
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“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.” -Eric Hoffer
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“The best time to plan a book is while you’re doing the dishes.” -Agatha Christie
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“Sometimes you feel awkward being what you’re best at, you feel like you have to be something new.” -Marilyn Manson
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“The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.” -Thomas Huxley
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“We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.” -Virginia Woolf
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“What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.” -Benjamin Franklin Fairless
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“Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.” -George Santayana
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“Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.” -Francois Fenelon
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“As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.” -Robin Hayes
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“The days you work are the best days.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
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“Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.” -Clarence Thomas
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“I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.” -Henry Rollins
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“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. ‘Til your good is better and your better is best.” -St. Jerome
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“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.” -Jonathan Swift
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“Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.” -Alexander Pope
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“There are many little ways to enlarge your child’s world. Love of books is the best of all.” -Jackie Kennedy
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“Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.” -Nathaniel Hawthorne
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“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” -Mikhail Bakunin
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“The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.” -Howard Cosell
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“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.” -E. M. Forster
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“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.” -Stephen King
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“Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.” -George W. Bush
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“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.” -Henry Miller
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“Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.” -Ernest Holmes
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“We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.” -Anatole France
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“Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.” -Earl Nightingale
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“You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I’m taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.” -Harry S. Truman
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“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.” -E. O. Wilson
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“I just always expect the best because I’m a competitor and if I’m competing, then obviously I’m trying to be better in everything.” -Lil Wayne
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“It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.” -George MacDonald
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“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.” -Thomas Fuller
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“In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.” -Carter G. Woodson
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“Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn’t listen to other people, that they couldn’t hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.” -Warren Farrell
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“He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.” -Walter Scott
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“Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and…
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“I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I’ve made some bad choices.” -Amy Grant
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“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.” -Charles Baudelaire
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“I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.” -Bryan Clay
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“Music is the best way for me to say I love you.” -Mireille Mathieu
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“Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.” -Aung San Suu Kyi
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“One man’s ways may be as good as another’s, but we all like our own best.” -Jane Austen
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“No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.” -Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.” -Malcolm Forbes
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“The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth – something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food – just watch it, don’t eat it.” -Edward Koch
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“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.” -William Arthur Ward
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“It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.” -Desmond Tutu
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“Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.” -Sam Ewing
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“Loving a child doesn’t mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.” -Nadia Boulanger
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“To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.” -LeBron James
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“Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.” -Muhammad Ali Jinnah
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“The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn’t cost the government a dime.” -Andy Stern
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“The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.” -Ronnie James Dio
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“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.” -Stanley Kubrick
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