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  • Lee Siegel A jokes and a truth are not mutually exclusive. The best jokes are true and the best truths are jokes.
    Laughing Matters Act one: Satire
    Lee Siegel
    American academic (1945 - )
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  • Jane Austen A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Lao-Tzu A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Bill Shankly A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Caroline Leavitt A lot of people hurl themselves into relationships to lose themselves, but I think the best relationships help us to be more ourselves, to bring forth our best selves.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A majority is always better than the best repartee.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bernard Malamud A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all a loneliness and men know it best.
    Bernard Malamud
    American novelist (1914 - 1986)
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  • Charles Darwin A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • Lord Chesterfield A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Plautus A patient mind is the best remedy for trouble.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • B. F. Skinner A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Max Lerner A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A prince or general can best demonstrate his genius by managing a campaign exactly to suit his objectives and his resources, doing neither too much nor too little.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Duke Ellington A problem is your chance to do your best.
    Duke Ellington
    American composer and pianist (1899 - 1974)
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  • Alistair Cooke A professional; is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.
    Alistair Cooke
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Michael LeBoeuf A satisfied customer is the best business strategy of all.
    Michael LeBoeuf
    American business author and management professor (1942 - )
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  • Hitopadesa A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • David Seabury A wise unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only to the best discoverable course of action.
    David Seabury
    American psychologist, author, and lecturer (1885 - 1960)
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  • Julie Burchill A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold.
    Julie Burchill
    British journalist, writer
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