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  • George Eliot There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • James Truslow Adams 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
    American writer and historian (1878 - 1949)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bob Kane There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman.
    Bob Kane and Tom Andrae (1989)
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Billy Corgan There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bill Simmons There's a tipping point that happens with soccer in which you just kinda get it. I was drawn to it because the best soccer teams play similarly to my favorite basketball teams - like the eighties Lakers or eighties Celtics - teams that emphasized teamwork over individualism and relied on passing as their biggest ongoing edge.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Mark Twain There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bode Miller There's so many guys skiing so fast right now that you really have to be willing to take a lot of risks if you want to give yourself a chance to win. I'm prepared to do it; it's just a matter of if I can make it work.
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Helen Rowland There's so much saint in the worst of them, and so much devil in the best of them, that a woman who's married to one of them, has nothing to learn of the rest of them.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Bill Luther These issues are so important. I just felt the best thing to do right now is contribute and go forward.
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  • Anthony Trollope They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Wooden Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Art Linkletter Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.
    Art Linkletter
    Canadian-born American radio and television personality (1912 - 2010)
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  • Malcolm Forbes Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Arthur Henderson This is our world, and we must make the best of it.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Ralph Waldo Trine This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.
    Ralph Waldo Trine
    American writer (1866 - 1958)
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  • Lord George Byron This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Michael Korda This is true enough, but success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you would find a deeper, truer happiness in failure.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Carl Sagan This planet is run by crazy people. Remember what they have to do to get where they are. Their perspective is so narrow, so...brief. A few years. In the best of them a few decades. They care only about the time they are in power.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 23 (p. 403)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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