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Quotes 1041 till 1060 of 1663.

• The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

  ― Chuck Palahniuk
  American novelist and journalist (1962 - )
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• The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

  ― Algernon Sydney
  English politician (1623 - 1683)
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• The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

  ― Abigail Van Buren
  American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

  ― Laurence J. Peter
  Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  ― Napoleon Hill
  American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  ― Carl Lewis
  American athlete (1961 - )
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• The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they've never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people's minds, exposing them to the light.

  ― Bill Hicks
  American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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• The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

  ― William Butler Yeats
  Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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• The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

  ― Alexis de Tocqueville
  French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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• The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

  ― Thomas J. Peters
  American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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• The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

  ― Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

  ― Saadi
  Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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• The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

  ― Douglas Macarthur
  American general in WO II (1880 - 1964)
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• The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

  ― Jane Porter
  English writer (1776 - 1850)
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• The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot of times we'll fail, and sometimes we'll pull it off. But good marriages are when you can go home and know that your vulnerability will be honored as courage, and that you'll find support.

  ― Brene Brown
  American professor, lecturer, author (1965 - )
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• The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

  ― Arthur C. Clarke
  British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• assassination
• vulnerability
• constitution
• commonplace
• reflections
• magnanimity

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