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“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.” — Jane Austen

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“If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.” — Dale Carnegie

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“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.” — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.” — Oprah Winfrey

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“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” — Winston Churchill

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“The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.” — Michelangelo

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“The language of excitement is at best picturesque; merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.” — George S. Patton

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“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” — Thomas Jefferson

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“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.” — Henry Ford

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“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.” — Plautus

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“Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.” — Samuel Butler

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“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.” — Edward Abbey

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“Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.” — Edward Abbey

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“Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.” — Mark Twain

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” — John Wooden

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“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.” — Thomas Paine

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“I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.” — Henry Ford

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“In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.” — Sun Tzu

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“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.” — Winston Churchill

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“'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.” — William Shakespeare

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“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.” — Lord Byron

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