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“What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.” — Ronald Reagan

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“The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.” — William Feather

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“One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.” — Josh Billings

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“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — Harry S. Truman

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“You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.” — George Eliot

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“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“A majority is always better than the best repartee.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.” — Will Rogers

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“To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.” — Aeschylus

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“A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.” — Charles Spurgeon

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“That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.” — William Feather

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“Toleration is the best religion.” — Victor Hugo

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“It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.” — Mark Twain

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“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.” — Aristotle

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“It is not enough to do your best you must know what to do, and then do your best.” — W. Edwards Deming

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“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.” — George Orwell

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“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.” — Mark Twain

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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.” — Franklin P. Adams

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“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.” — Aeschylus

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“I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.” — John F. Kennedy

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“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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