Quotes with one-seventh

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  • Billy Wilder The best director is the one you don't see.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Anne Frank The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Sir William Temple The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton 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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  • Abraham Lincoln The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
    The wit and wisdom of Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • James A. Froude The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
    James A. Froude
    British Historian (1818 - 1894)
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  • Noam Chomsky The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Jules Feiffer The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they've reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you're just horny. It doesn't mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten.
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  • Brendan Myers The birthplace of 'Western' civilization is generally agreed to be Greece, and its birth date is generally agreed to be some time during the 6th century B.C.E. Obviously, there is not one single dramatic moment that definitively started the whole thing.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Billy Gibbons The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Richard Bach The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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