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Quotes 981 till 1000 of 1600.

• The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

  William James
  American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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• The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

  Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

  Alben W. Barkley
  American lawyer and politician (1877 - 1956)
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• The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The best ballplayer's the one who doesn't think he made good. He keeps trying to convince you.

  Casey Stengel
  American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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• The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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• The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
  

  George Orwell
  English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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• The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

  George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• The best business plans are straightforward documents that spell out the ''who, what, where, why, and how much... ''

  Paula Nelson
   
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• The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own.

  Alistair Cooke
  British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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• The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else s.

  Goodman Ace
  American humourist, radio writer and comedian (1899 - 1982)
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• The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

  Napoleon
  French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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• The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

  Arnold Bennett
  British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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• The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

  Bob Moawad
   
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• The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

  William F. Buckley
  American political commentator and journalist
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• 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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• The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

  Jonathan Swift
  English writer (1667 - 1745)
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• The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

  Wendell Phillips
  American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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• The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• The best efforts of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• straightforward
• self-activity
• deliberately
• responsible
• interested
• depression

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