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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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.” — Josh Billings

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“The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.” — Charles Spurgeon

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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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“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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“Hunger is the best pickle.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.” — George Eliot

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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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“The best vision is insight.” — Malcolm Forbes

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“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” — Steve Jobs

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“Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.” — Samuel Butler

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