Quotes with best-written

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  • Bruce Bueno de Mesquita The fact that we see some people doing what appears to be good civic-minded deeds may be because that is their true intention, and it may be that that is their best way to hold onto power in a setting where they have to depend on a lot of people.
    Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
    American political scientist (1946 - )
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  • C. Wright Mills The family provides the army and navy with the best men and boys that it possesses. And, as we have seen, education and science too are becoming means to the ends sought by the military.
    The Power Elite (1956)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Big Pun The first album was 99 percent hard core to show you I was the best rhymer in the world.
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  • Bethany Mota The first day back to school, you never want to wear your best outfit. You're setting the bar too high for yourself! Then the rest of the school year, you'll feel so much pressure! Wear something cute, but save your best outfit for a day when no one expects it.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Donna Tartt The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Barry Commoner The First Law of Ecology: Everything Is Connected to Everything Else.... The Second Law of Ecology: Everything Must Go Somewhere.... The Third Law of Ecology: Nature Knows Best.... The Fourth Law of Ecology: There Is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch.
    The Closing Circle
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Caitlin Moran The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Desiderius Erasmus The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Brenda Laurel The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
    Brenda Laurel
    American video game designer and researcher (1950 - )
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  • Barry Sanders The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • Eric Hoffer The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Walt Whitman The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • Bill Walton The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Frank Dane The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
    Frank Dane
    British actor
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  • Blaine Lee The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
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  • Friedrich Melchior Grimm The greatest men have not always the best heads; many indiscretions may be pardoned to a brilliant and ardent imagination. The prudence and discretion of a cold heart are not worth half so much as the follies of an ardent mind.
    Friedrich Melchior Grimm
    German-born French-language journalist, art critic and diplomat
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  • Buffalo Bill The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
    An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920)
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Ace Frehley The guys in my band are good friends on and off the stage. The band members that I have now is probably the best band that I have ever had.
    Ace Frehley
    American musician and songwriter (1951 - )
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