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  • Aldous Huxley On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Thomas De Quincey Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
    Thomas De Quincey
    British writer (1785 - 1859)
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  • Boman Irani Once, Naseeruddin Shah told me that the wafer shop was the best acting school that I could have attended. And I completely agree. I observed every customer very minutely and picked up some quirk or the other. Later, I used those experiences while playing different characters.
    Boman Irani
    Indian actor (1959 - )
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  • Ben Zobrist One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.
    Ben Zobrist
    American professional baseball player (1981 - )
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  • Josh Billings One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Groucho Marx One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • John Naisbitt One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
    John Naisbitt
    American author and public speaker (1929 - )
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  • Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
    Frank Herbert
    American science fiction writer (1920 - 1986)
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  • Eric Butterworth One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.
    Eric Butterworth
    American minister, author, and radio personality
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  • Bernie S. Siegel One of the best ways to change is to act as if you are the person you want to become. When you behave as if you are a different person, you change on a very basic level - even your physiology changes. When actors and actresses perform, their body chemistry is altered by the roles they play.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Dean Rusk One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears - by listening to them.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Josh Billings One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Bee Wilson One of the rudest things you can do, food-wise, is to stare at someone in the act of eating. It draws attention to the unseemly fact that eating is a bodily function - like animals, we are trapped by our hungers, but we do our best to disguise them with such civilized props as menus and forks.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • Jonathan Swift One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Will Rogers One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Eleanor Roosevelt One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
    Eleanor Roosevelt
    American "First Lady" and columnist (1884 - 1962)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Plautus Ones oldest friend is the best.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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