Quotes with best-educated

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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Billy Parish Our personal networks, although often small at the beginning, can still be the best place to start when we want to get a job that makes a difference or take our ideas to the next level.
    Billy Parish
    American environmental entrepreneur, author, and activist (1981 - )
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  • Socrates Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Arthur Erickson Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Jean Paul Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Jesse Owens People come out to see you perform and you've got to give them the best you have within you. The lives of most men are patchwork quilts. Or at best one matching outfit with a closet and laundry bag full of incongruous accumulations. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Springsteen People deserve... the truth. They deserve honesty. The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Bryn Terfel People may have thought that we changed a lot. I don't think we came in with that intention. Certain things I can't stomach. But I tried to be as collegial as possible. When you sign that contract, you're tied to that opera house to try your best. But every different team will play with a different intensity.
    Bryn Terfel
    Welsh bass-baritone opera singer (1965 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bode Miller People want athletes to cater to their image of what an athlete should be, but they also want them to fail so they can feel like their screwups are all right. If I make a priority shift, I'll make it because it's best for me.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.
    The (Mis)Behavior of Markets Ch. 12, p. 245
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Brene Brown Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it's a shield.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Nadine Gordimer Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.
    Nadine Gordimer
    South african writer (1923 - 2014)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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