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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 men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin
  American author and clergyman (1814 - 1880)
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• The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.

  Ronald Reagan
  American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes
  American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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• The best opinion now is, that there are multitudinous forms which are not sufficiently differentiated to be distinctively either plant or animal, while, as respects ordinary plants and animals, the difficulty of laying down a definition has become far greater than ever before.

  Asa Gray
  American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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• The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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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 translation is not that which is most like the original but which is the most different from it.

  Gamaliel Bradford
  American biographer, critic, poet, and dramatist (1863 - 1932)
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• 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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• The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.

  Bob Harrington
   
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• The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

  Wilson Mizner
  American Author (1876 - 1933)
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• The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

  Bo Bennett
  American author (1972 - )
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• 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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• 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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• The best way to save money is not to lose it.

  Les Williams
   
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• The best way to secure revenge is not to make your enemy fail, but to succeed yourself.

  The maxims of Marmaduke

  Charles Edward Jerningham
  English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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• The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

  Ben Okri
  Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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Subjects in these quotes:

• differentiated
• distinctively
• technological
• translation
• unpleasant
• inequality

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