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  • Phillips Brooks No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Alan Alda No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • William James No matter how full a reservoir of maxims one may possess, and no matter how good one's sentiments may be, if one has not taken advantage of every concrete opportunity to act, one's character may remain entirely unaffected for the better.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Channing Pollock No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Bonnie Blair No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Seneca No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Aristotle No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • George Orwell No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Bobby Flay Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bart Chilton Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Wayne Calloway Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
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  • Caprice Bourret Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
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  • Cher Nothing lifts me out of a bad mood better than a hard workout on my treadmill. It never fails. To us, exercise is nothing short of a miracle.
    Cher
    American singer and actress (1946 - )
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  • Aaron Douglas Trimble Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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  • Walt Whitman O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Molière Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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