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  • Robert Frost 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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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Berton Braley The best verse hasn't been rhymed yet, The best house hasn't been planned, The highest peak hasn't been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren't spanned; Don't worry and fret, faint-hearted, The chances have just begun For the best jobs haven't been started, The best work hasn't been done.
    Berton Braley
     
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  • Gene Fowler The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
    Gene Fowler
    American journalist, author and dramatist (1890 - 1960)
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  • Balthus The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings.
    Balthus
    Polish-French modern artist (1908 - 2001)
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  • Bob Uecker The best way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until the ball stops rolling and then pick it up.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Red Auerbach The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
    Red Auerbach
    American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities B (1917 - 2006)
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  • Dorothy Parker The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Scott Alexander The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.
    Scott Alexander
    American professional baseball pitcher (1989 - )
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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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  • Bill Gates The best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system.
    Source: Interview from Programmers at Work
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin The best way to study Mars is with two hands, eyes and ears of a geologist, first at a moon orbiting Mars... and then on the surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bryant H. McGill The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Henry Ford The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them, and then make our plans with confidence.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • John Ruskin The best work never was and never will be done for money.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Carlos Williams The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
    William Carlos Williams
    American poet (1883 - 1963)
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  • Anita Diamant The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Lynn Lavner The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
    Lynn Lavner
     
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