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Quotes 1321 till 1340 of 1663.

• The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

  ― Oscar Wilde
  Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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• The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.

  ― Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
  Italian politician and banker (1920 - 2016)
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• The volunteering spirit of Londoners is part of what makes this the best big city on earth.

  ― Boris Johnson
  British politician and author (1964 - )
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• The waste basket is a writer's best friend.

  ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

  ― Isaac Bashevis Singer
  Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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• The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

  ― Beau Willimon
  American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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• The wildest colts make the best horses.

  ― Plutarch
  Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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• The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

  ― Bhumibol Adulyadej
  Thai King (1927 - 2016)
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• The women of the Senate are like the U.S. Olympic team: we come in different sizes, but we sure are united in our determination to do the best for our country!

  ― Barbara Mikulski
  American politician (1936 - )
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• The words fill my head, and fall to the floor, that if God's on our side, he'll stop the next war.

  Source: The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)

  ― Bob Dylan
  American musician (1941 - )
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• The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.

  Source: Het boek van wonderlijke nieuwe dingen (2014)

  ― Michel Faber
  Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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• The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

  ― Francis H. Bradley
  British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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• The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

  Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert (1848) p.184

  ― John Sterling
  Scottish author (1938 - )
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• The worst men often give the best advice.
  

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The worst men often give the best advice.

  ― Philip James Bailey
  English Spasmodic poet (1816 - 1902)
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• The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government.

  ― Henry Ward Beecher
  American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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• The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

  ― Will Rogers
  American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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• The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.

  ― Bar Refaeli
  Israeli model, actress, and entrepreneur (1985 - )
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• Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

  Source: The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

  ― Mignon McLaughlin
  American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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• Then I left that school and I went to Cerritos College, which was in southern California; they had one of the best big band programs in the country at the time.

  ― Bobby McFerrin
  American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• determination
• politicians
• self-denial
• government
• california
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