Quotes with best-regulated

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  • Nicolas Chamfort Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Selfactivity, which is the best effect of any book.
    Sartor Resartus
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • J. G. Ballard Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.
    Cocaine Nights (1996)
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Bai Ling Sex is the best high. It's better than any drug. I want to die making love because it feels so good.
    Bai Ling
    Chinese-American actress (1966 - )
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  • Woody Allen Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Anita Loos Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • B. F. Harris Show me the business man or institution not guided by sentiment and service; by the idea that he profits most who serves best and I will show you a man or an outfit that is dead or dying.
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  • William Arthur Ward Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Bridget Hall Snowboarding! I love it! Some of the best places to snowboard are Telluride and Park Cities, Utah.
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  • Bono So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails. Well at best I've got one of the two of those.
    PENN Address (2004)
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Haniel Long 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
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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  • Bernard Cornwell So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Sir William Osler Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Thomas Paine Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Bill Gates Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Boris Kodjoe Some of the best actors in the world are very exterior actors, Anthony Hopkins being one of them. He knows exactly how to turn his face to get a certain expression. He knows exactly what to do with eyes, and with his voice. It's very exterior.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Billy Campbell Some of the best auditions I've ever had have been when my agent called and said, 'They want you 20 minutes ago, in an office in Century City, to see you for something.' I'm not sitting there thinking for a week and a half, before I'm supposed to go in front of a network president to do something. That just gives you time to be nervous.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record - Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages - you have to ask yourself: Whose side is she on, anyway?
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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