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  • Bob Newhart 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' was the best television, the best cast, the best-written television show ever.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Ovid 'Tis best to be silent in a bad cause.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Abdul Kalam ... the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.
    Wings of Fire
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Ernest Hemingway A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Logan Pearsall Smith A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
    Logan Pearsall Smith
    English writer (1865 - 1946)
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  • Samuel Butler A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Charles Dickens A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Walter Bagehot A cold, and cynical wisdom particularly disapproves of most men's best actions.
    Biographical Studies (1881)
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Stew Leonard A customer who complains is my best friend.
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  • B. F. Skinner 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
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Denzel Washington A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, ''Oh, I don't like it.'' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
    Denzel Washington
    American actor, director, and producer (1954 - )
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  • Martin Farquhar Tupper A good book is the best of friends.
    Martin Farquhar Tupper
    English writer and poet (1810 - 1889)
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  • Thomas B. Macaulay A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
    Thomas B. Macaulay
    American essayist and historian (1800 - 1859)
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  • H. Stanley Judd A good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • William Hazlitt A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Billy Campbell A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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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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