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  • Friedrich Nietzsche 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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  • Voltaire 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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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 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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  • Algernon Sydney The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Abigail Van Buren 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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  • Laurence J. Peter The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Carl Lewis The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
    Carl Lewis
    American athlete (1961 - )
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  • Bill Hicks The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • William Butler Yeats The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Saadi The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Douglas Macarthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
    Douglas Macarthur
    American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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  • Jane Porter The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.
    Jane Porter
    English writer (1776 - 1850)
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  • Brene Brown The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.
    Brene Brown
    American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Josh Billings The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord it ain't the gout.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Edwin Hubbel Chapin The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.
    Edwin Hubbel Chapin
    American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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