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Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1663.

• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

  ― Benjamin Disraeli
  English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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• The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

  ― Walter Lippmann
  American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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• The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

  ― Ben Bernanke
  American economist (1953 - )
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• The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

  ― Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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• The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.

  Source: Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

  ― Bill Bryson
  American-British author (1951 - )
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• The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.

  ― Jeremy Taylor
  British churchman and writer (1613 - 1667)
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• The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove itself.

  ― Karl Barth
  Swiss theologian (1886 - 1968)
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• The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

  ― Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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• The best thing about doing needlepoint for very small children is that they are so uncritical. The don't say things like, I see you've missed some stitches over here on the leg, was that intentional? or Was this creature blinded in a fight? They will clasp it in their little arms and love it besottedly, inseparably as the thing becomes more and more rancid.

  ― Carole Berman
   
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• The best thing about Sci-Fi, which is my favorite genre, is that there are no rules for behavior. So you can do anything you want.

  ― Brion James
  American actor (1945 - 1999)
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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  Source: The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln

  ― Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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• The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

  ― Douglas Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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• The best thing in life aren't things.

  ― John Ruskin
  English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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• The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.

  Source: Engleby (2007)

  ― Sebastian Faulks
  British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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• The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
  

  ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  American poet (1807 - 1882)
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• The best thing that could happen to motherhood already has. Fewer women are going into it.

  ― Victoria Billings
  American writer
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• The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

  ― Dorothy Day
   
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• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  ― Robert Frost
  American poet (1874 - 1963)
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• The best things in life aren't things.

  ― Art Buchwald
  American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

  ― Josh Billings
  American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• technological
• inconvenience
• separateness
• intentional
• inseparably
• homogenized

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