Quotes with best-regulated

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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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  • Lawrence Durrell A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
    Lawrence Durrell
    British Author (1912 - 1990)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Charles Dickens Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carrie Fisher Acting engenders and harbours qualities that are best left way behind in adolescence.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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