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Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that house, the whole bit. But if I looked fine, she'd find something wrong - the color, the hem... I used to tell her, 'Mama, don't worry when you're not with me, because you're with me.'
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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
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Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
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Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it's about earning approval and acceptance.
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Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
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Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.
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May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
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Men always fall for frigid women because they put on the best show.
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Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.
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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.
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Mitch Daniels in Indiana was the best governor in America for eight years. I've gone to Indianapolis to study with him.
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Money is the best deodorant.
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Moral power is probably best when it is not used. The less you use it the more you have.
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Most of all, I love being a storyteller. And yes, I want to make a good living, but I'm not always driven by the best commercial sense.
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Most of my ambitions were seeded at St. John's. My time there was some of the best time I have spent on Earth thus far.
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Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
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Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.
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