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  • Oliver Goldsmith The best way to please one half of the world is not to mind, what the other half says.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Les Williams The best way to save money is not to lose it.
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham The best way to secure revenge is not to make your enemy fail, but to succeed yourself.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Lord George Byron The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Ben Okri The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Richard Dawkins The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Carla Hall The biggest challenge of being a pastry chef is that, unlike other types of chefs, you can't throw things together at a farmer's market. When you're working with baking powder and a formula, you have to be exact. If not, things can go wrong.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Mother Teresa The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Malcolm Forbes The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Garry Kasparov The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not trusting their instincts enough.
    How Life Imitates Chess (2007) 96
    Garry Kasparov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1963 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Branford Marsalis The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Bob Woodward The biggest rap on me is that I don't find a Watergate every couple of years. Well, Watergate was unique. It's not something Carl Bernstein, I, or the Washington Post caused.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Bobby Orr The biggest thing we get out of it is seeing the kids smile. And hopefully we will also see that the lessons we're teaching - not only the fundamentals of hockey, but also the life values - are sinking in.
    Bobby Orr
    Canadian ice hockey player (1948 - )
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bobby Seale The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
    Bobby Seale
    American political activist (1936 - )
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  • Germaine Greer The blind conviction that we have to do something about other people's reproductive behavior, and that we may have to do it whether they like it or not, derives from the assumption that the world belongs to us, who have so expertly depleted its resources, rather than to them, who have not.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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