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  • Better to go than sit around being a terrible old bore.
  • It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
  • Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
  • Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
  • Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
  • 'Suffering should not make us bitter people,' my mother once said, 'it should make us better comforters.' Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they'll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.
  • Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.
  • To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead.
  • The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
  • I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
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  • William Shakespeare Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Lydia M. Child A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
    Lydia M. Child
    American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor (1802 - 1880)
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  • Arthur Calwell It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
    Arthur Calwell
     
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  • Mahatma Gandhi A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Brian Tracy Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Democracy isn't perfect, I just don't know a better system.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Henry Allen It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
    Henry Allen
     
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  • Oscar Wilde My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Norman Vincent Peale Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
    Norman Vincent Peale
    American minister and author (1898 - 1993)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
    Poor Richards Almanack
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Bruce Oldfield Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • André Gide I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is hard to go beyond your public. If they are satisfied with cheap performance, you will not easily arrive at better. If they know what is good, and require it. you will aspire and burn until you achieve it. But from time to time, in history, men are born a whole age too soon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Rich Cook Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
    Rich Cook
     
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  • Anthony Robbins Quality questions create a quality life. Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Plutarch Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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