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• The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.

  Carole Berman
   
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• The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

  Brion James
  American actor (1945 - 1999)
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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

  Douglas Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

  Engleby (2007)

  Sebastian Faulks
  British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

  Victoria Billings
  American writer
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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  Dorothy Day
   
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• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald
  American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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• The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

  Bette Davis
  American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  Barbara Corcoran
  American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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• The best time to make friends is before you need them.

  Ethel Barrymore
  American actress (1879 - 1959)
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• The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
  

  Agatha Christie
  British writer (1890 - 1976)
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• The best training any parent can give a child is to train the child to train himself.

  Adolph P. Gouthey
  American writer
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• The best translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.

  Gamaliel Bradford
  American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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• The best umpired game is the game in which the fans cannot recall the umpires who worked it.

  Bill Klem
  American professional baseball umpire (1874 - 1951)
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• The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.

  Bill Simmons
  American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• under-the-radar
• dodgers-giants
• inseparably
• homogenized
• translation
• waaaaaaaaay

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