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• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

  Arnold Bennett
  British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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• The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

  Bob Moawad
   
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• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

  William F. Buckley
  American political commentator and journalist
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• The best director is the one you don't see.
  

  Billy Wilder
  Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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• The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

  Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips
  American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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• The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

  Susan Sontag
  American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

  Theodore Roosevelt
  American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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• The best fashion show is definitely on the street. Always has been, and always will be.

  Bill Cunningham
  American fashion photographer
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• The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

  Chuck Palahniuk
  American novelist and journalist (1962 - )
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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

  Algernon Sydney
  English politician (1623 - 1683)
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• The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

  Abigail Van Buren
  American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

  Laurence J. Peter
  Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-activity
• contemplative
• assassination
• intelligence
• aristocracy
• energizing

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