Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Asa Gray 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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  • Adlai Stevenson II 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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  • Walter Lippmann 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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  • Ben Bernanke 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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  • Gamaliel Bradford 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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  • Bob Harrington The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
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  • Napoleon The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Wilson Mizner The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Bo Bennett 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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  • 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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  • Les Williams The best way to save money is not to lose it.
    Les Williams
     
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham The best way to secure revenge is not to make your enemy fail, but to succeed yourself.
    Source: The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Lord George Byron 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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  • Ben Okri 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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  • Albert Ellis The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • James Baldwin The betrayal of a belief is not the same thing as ceasing to believe. If this were not so there would be no moral standards in the world at all.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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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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  • Heinrich Heine The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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