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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with… — Alan Alda
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting… — Wilferd Peterson
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...He is the hero, he is everything.… — Raymond Chandler
Frog said, 'I wrote 'Dear Toad, I am glad that you are my best friend. Your best friend, Frog.' 'Oh,' said Toad, 'that makes a… — Arnold Lobel
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. — Mark Twain
The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time. — Bob Hope
God is the celebrity author of the world's best seller. We have made god into the biggest celebrity of all, to contain our own emptiness. — Daniel J. Boorstin
Beauty being the best of all we know sums up the unsearchable and secret aims of nature. — Robert Bridges
Swipe from the best, then adapt. — Tom Peters
Our best ideas come from clerks and stockboys. — Sam Walton
Why is it I always get my best ideas while shaving? — Albert Einstein
The best indicator of a sociopath serial bully is not a clinical diagnosis but the trail of devastation and destruction of lives and livelihoods surrounding… — Tim Field
When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many… — Joseph Addison
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own… — Samuel Johnson
Education is the leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them; and these two objects are always attainable… — John Ruskin
The picket line is the best place to train organizers. One day on the picket line is where a man makes his commitment. The longer… — Cesar Chavez
Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment. — Cesar Chavez
People who have lost their hunger for justice are not ultimately powerful. They are like sick people who have lost their appetite for what is… — Cesar Chavez
Organizing is an educational process. The best educational process in the union is the picket line and the boycott. You learn about life. — Cesar Chavez
The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts. — Henry Fielding
Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the… — James Weldon Johnson
God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one. — William Shakespeare
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have. — Winston Churchill

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