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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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“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.” -Elie Wiesel
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“He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.” -Samuel Butler
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“The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.” -Eddie Vedder
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“Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.” -Jean Kerr
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“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.” -Eric Cantona
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“The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.” -Paramahansa Yogananda
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“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.” -James Truslow Adams
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“I’ve given it my all. I’ve done my best. Now, I’m ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.” -Richard M. Daley
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“I don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.” -Ben Stein
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“Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.” -Alfred Lord Tennyson
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“And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together.” -Robert Fulghum
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“I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.” -Selena Gomez
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“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.” -Alfred North Whitehead
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“There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.” -Sivananda
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“The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.” -Calvin Klein
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“Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.” -Francis Bacon
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“As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.” -Michelle Obama
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“The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men’s lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.” -John Ruskin
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“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.” -William F. Buckley, Jr.
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“It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
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“She’s always there for me when I need her She’s my best friend she’s just my everything.” -Ashley Olsen
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“This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.” -Conan O’Brien
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“I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.” -Haruki Murakami
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“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” -Mark Russell
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“You don’t despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.” -P. J. O’Rourke
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“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.” -Frida Kahlo
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“Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.” -Harvey Fierstein
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“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.” -Harry Emerson Fosdick
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“In writing and politicking, it’s best not to think about it, just do it.” -Gore Vidal
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“The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.” -Douglas MacArthur
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“Employees are a company’s greatest asset – they’re your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company’s mission.” -Anne M. Mulcahy
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“I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you’re really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That’s the way I’ve always lived my life.” -Shania Twain
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“I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that’s fine.” -Marlee Matlin
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“The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.” -Charles Stanley
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“There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.” -Pope John Paul II
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“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” -Ludwig Wittgenstein
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“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.” -William Butler Yeats
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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.” -George Eliot
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“Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I’m doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I’m not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.” -Chuck Palahniuk
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“Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.” -Tony Snow
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“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
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“If you’re lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.” -Rip Torn
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“Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.” -Morihei Ueshiba
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“Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.” -Samuel Johnson
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“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” -Willa Cather
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“After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” -Kenneth Grahame
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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” -Benjamin Disraeli
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“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.” -Lord Byron
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“Focused. I’m a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.” -Mos Def
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“You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.” -Meister Eckhart
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“I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an ‘Iron Chef,’ actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live,…
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“Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with.” -Paula Abdul
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“It’s best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.” -Anne Baxter
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“The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.” -Orson Welles
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“In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.” -Peter Tosh
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“I don’t care whether people like me or dislike me. I’m not on earth to win a popularity contest. I’m here to be the best human being I possibly can be.” -Tab Hunter
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“The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.” -David Ogilvy
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“Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.” -Alexis de Tocqueville
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“The best interpreter of the law is custom.” -Marcus Tullius Cicero
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“You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.” -Denis Waitley
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“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.” -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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“The future hasn’t happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I’m in.” -Annie Lennox
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“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time.” -Frank Miller
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“I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it.” -Rose Kennedy
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“The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.” -George F. Kennan
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“The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.” -Wilson Mizner
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“Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.” -Bernard Meltzer
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“Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.” -Noam Chomsky
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“As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.”…
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“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.” -Charles Dickens
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“The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.” -Orison Swett Marden
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“Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.” -Thomas Sowell
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“The intention to live as long as possible isn’t one of the mind’s best intentions, because quantity isn’t the same as quality.” -Deepak Chopra
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“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.” -Joseph Smith, Jr.
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“Here’s what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We’re given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.” -Mike Ditka
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“If you’re feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you’re different.” -Kristin Scott Thomas
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“Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.” -Colin Powell
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“I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it’s shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it’s a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It’s truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.” -Tom Hooper
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“Life is short and if you’re looking for extension, you had best do well. ‘Cause there’s good deeds and then there’s good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.” -Ben Harper
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“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.” -Fred Rogers
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“The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” -Bette Davis
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“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.” -Walt Whitman
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“Only a mediocre person is always at his best.” -W. Somerset Maugham
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“Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.” -Ambrose Bierce
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“A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.” -Joyce Brothers
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“Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.” -Charles Kingsley
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“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.” -Donald Trump
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“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.” -George Orwell
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“But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.” -Vincent Van Gogh
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“If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.” -Dwight D. Eisenhower
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“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.” -Danica Patrick
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“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” -John Steinbeck
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“I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can’t be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.” -Calvin Coolidge
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“There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that’s certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.” -Hillary Clinton
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“The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.” -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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“The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.” -William Wordsworth
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“These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.” -Ayrton Senna
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“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken – and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as…
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“I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.” -John Locke
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“I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you’re having a bad day, if you don’t like your hair, if you don’t have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can’t do anything until you love yourself first.” -Julianne Hough
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“Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It’s when you make your best friends – I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.” -Sophia Bush
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“Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.” -Robert Green Ingersoll
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“Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.” -Pablo Picasso
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“The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.” -Justin Timberlake
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“Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.” -W. C. Fields
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“I don’t want to do business with those who don’t make a profit, because they can’t give the best service.” -Richard Bach
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“The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.” -William James
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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.” -Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one’s opinion is the best proof of stupidity.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You’ll be an old man before you know it.” -Al…
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“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.” -Muhammad Iqbal
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“A woman’s best protection is a little money of her own.” -Clare Boothe Luce
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“I don’t know why, it’s the same reason why you like some music and you don’t like others. There’s something about it that you like. Ultimately I don’t find it’s in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it’s fundamentally emotional.” -Jerry Garcia
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“I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.” -Jesse Jackson
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“Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” -Charles Spurgeon
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“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.” -Henry Ward Beecher
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“Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.” -Carl Sandburg
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“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.” -Vladimir Lenin
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“Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.” -Babe Ruth
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“The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.” -Luc de Clapiers
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“Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.” -Joseph Addison
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“The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.” -Niels Bohr
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“I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.” -Faith Hill
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“The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.” -David Icke
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“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.” -Richard Cecil
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“Men are like wine – some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.” -Pope John XXIII
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“With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.” -Rodney Dangerfield
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“No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.” -John Wooden
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“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” -Epictetus
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“There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.” -Clint Eastwood
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“The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America’s communities, large and small.” -Mitt Romney
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“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.” -Elizabeth Taylor
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“You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don’t win, at least you can be satisfied that you’ve tried. If you don’t accept failure as a possibility, you don’t set high goals, you don’t branch out, you don’t try – you don’t take the risk.” -Rosalynn Carter
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“To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients’ best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.” -Anthony Hitt
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“The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.” -Dan Gable
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“I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.” -Kenny Guinn
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“The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.” -Robert E. Lee
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“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” -Thomas A. Edison
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“I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.” -Dorothy Day
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“To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.” -Marcus Aurelius
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“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” -Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.” -Dale Carnegie
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“Luck marches with those who give their very best.” -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.” -Ray Bradbury
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“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” -Alan Kay
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“About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.” -Kurt Vonnegut
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“I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.” -John Frusciante
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“Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.” -Konrad von Gesner
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“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.” -Jerome K. Jerome
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“Yes’m, old friends is always best, ‘less you can catch a new one that’s fit to make an old one out of.” -Sarah Orne Jewett
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“I just want to do what I do best, and that’s fight. I love it.” -Mike Tyson
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“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.” -Joel Osteen
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“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.” -Napoleon Hill
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“The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.” -Voltaire
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“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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“In this world you’ve just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.” -Lucy Maud Montgomery
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“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.” -T. S. Eliot
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“Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.” -Lou Holtz
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“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.” -Samuel Adams
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“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best – make it all up – but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.” -Ernest Hemingway
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“There’s a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.” -Plato
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“I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that’s how I operate my life.” -Oprah Winfrey
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“Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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“A man’s friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.” -Charles Darwin
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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” -Sun Tzu
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“Cynical realism is the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.” -Aldous Huxley
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“When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.” -Robert A. Heinlein
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“One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
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“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” -Rita Mae Brown
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“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” -Steve Jobs
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“The best way out of a difficulty is through it.” -Will Rogers
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