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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.” — George Eliot

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“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.” — Albert Einstein

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” — Steve Jobs

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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” — Franz Kafka

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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” — Andrew Carnegie

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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.” — Jose Saramago

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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — Ayn Rand

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“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” — Lao Tzu

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“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.” — Aristotle

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“That government is best which governs least.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.” — Michelangelo

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“A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.” — Thomas Fuller

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“The best vision is insight.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“Hunger is the best pickle.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“He who knows best knows how little he knows.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.” — Abraham Lincoln

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