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  • Abraham Lincoln Gold is good in its place but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Augustine Birrell Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Cole Porter Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
    Cole Porter
    American composer and songwriter (1891 - 1964)
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  • Thomas Fuller Good is not good, when better is expected.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Carl Hiaasen Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Cal Thomas Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Eric Kaplan Graduation speeches force you to reflect. They are about consciousness. Nothing is better than consciousness.
    Bruce Eric Kaplan
    American cartoonist
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  • Juliene Berk Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
    Juliene Berk
    American author
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  • Bill Richardson Had I stayed longer in some primaries, I would have probably done better in states like Nevada, California, and New Mexico - but I ran out of the money after the second primary in New Hampshire.
    Bill Richardson
    American politician, author, and diplomat (1947 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Half a truth is better than no politics.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Brian K. Vaughan Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Jack Nicklaus He had a lot of talent, but didn't have much dedication, wasn't organized, didn't know how to learn, didn't know how to comprehend what he was doing, didn't try to learn how to get better.
    Jack Nicklaus
    American golf player (1940 - )
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  • Francis Bacon He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Oliver Cromwell He who stops being better stops being good.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson He will hold thee, when his passion shall have spent its novel force, something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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