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“Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his mate so the kids understand their parents are sexy, they’re fun, they do things together, they’re best friends. Kids learn by example. If I respect Mom, they’re going to respect Mom.” -Tim Allen
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“Don’t lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.” -Ralph Marston
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“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” -H. L. Mencken
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“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious – just dead wrong.” -Russell Baker
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“The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” -Paul Valery
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“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.” -Theodore Roosevelt
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“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.” -Thomas Paine
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“You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.” -Walt Disney
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“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.” -Gilda Radner
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“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.” -Bill Cosby
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“A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.” -B. F. Skinner
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“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” -Dave Pelzer
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“The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.” -Robert Frost
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“I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.” -George Bernard Shaw
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“I’ve always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.” -Zig Ziglar
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“Honestly, I’d love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I’m doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I’m doing.” -Eminem
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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” -Henry David Thoreau
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“So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.” -Haniel Long
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“Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.” -Phyllis Diller
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“One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.” -Joseph Campbell
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“I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.” -Ron Paul
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“You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?” -W. Clement Stone
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“Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.” -Chanakya
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“The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
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“I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.” -Michael Jordan
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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” -Ayn Rand
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“I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.” -Grenville Kleiser
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“My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.” -Carnie Wilson
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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” -Albert Camus
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“Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.” -Theodore Isaac Rubin
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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” -Aristotle
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“The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” -Lao Tzu
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“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.” -Henry Ford
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“Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.” -Abdul Kalam
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“To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.” -Steve Prefontaine
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“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“I feel sorry for people who don’t drink. They wake up in the morning and that’s the best they’re going to feel all day.” -Dean Martin
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“But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance.” -William Julius Wilson
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“It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.” -John F. Kennedy
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“What we have found in this country, and maybe we’re more aware of it now, is one problem that we’ve had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” -Ronald Reagan
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“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?” -Edgar Allan Poe
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“Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.” -Mahatma Gandhi
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“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.” -Oscar Wilde
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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” -George S. Patton
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“When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.” -Helen Keller
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“If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.” -Audrey Hepburn
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“The best smell in the world is that man that you love.” -Jennifer Aniston
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“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.” -Margaret Thatcher
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“‘Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.” -William Shakespeare
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“If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.” -Pat Riley
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“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.” -Thomas Jefferson
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“The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.” -Abraham Lincoln
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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” -Mark Twain
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“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.” -Moliere
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“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” -Winston Churchill
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“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.” -Anne Frank
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“The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.” -Dalai Lama
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“Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.” -Socrates
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“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.” -Albert Ellis
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“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx
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“God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.” -Jim Elliot
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“Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.” -Og Mandino
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“You can’t stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it’s the best thing in the world. When you’re in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.” -Keith Sweat
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“My mama always used to tell me: ‘If you can’t find somethin’ to live for, you best find somethin’ to die for.’” -Tupac Shakur
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“Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” -Buddha
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“A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” -Duke Ellington
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“Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.” -Art Buchwald
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“He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.” -Friedrich Schiller
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“You’ll live. Only the best get killed.” -Charles de Gaulle
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“This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.” -Hannah Arendt
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“Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.” -Frank Crane
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“There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.” -Doris Lessing
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“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.” -George Halas
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“Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.” -David Seabury
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“First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.” -Horatio Nelson
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“The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.” -Gerald Jampolsky
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“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best – that is inspiration.” -Robert Bresson
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“The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.” -Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.” -Martin…
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“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” -Peter Drucker
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“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.” -Robert Kiyosaki
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“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.” -Max Beerbohm
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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” -Rudyard Kipling
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“The best thing about animals is that they don’t talk much.” -Thornton Wilder
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“The best things in life are unexpected – because there were no expectations.” -Eli Khamarov
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“I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help – and God’s.” -Lyndon B. Johnson
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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.” -e. e. cummings
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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” -Albert Einstein
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“Learn to say ‘no’ to the good so you can say ‘yes’ to the best.” -John C. Maxwell
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“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.” -Carl Jung
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