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There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of fine arts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents. — Friedrich Nietzsche
As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer… — Edward de Bono
Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word. — Lord Acton
A monarch frequently represents his subjects better that an elected assembly; and if he is a good judge of character he is likely to have… — William Ralph Inge
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. — Charles Dudley Warner
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
The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better. — E. W. Howe
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it… — William Hazlitt
Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it. — Benjamin Franklin
Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. — William Shakespeare
There is always change, bad customs pass and give way to better ones. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Put God in your debt. Every stroke shall be repaid. The longer the payment is with-held, the better for you; for compound interest on compound… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was so much better… — Sonia Sotomayor
Any coward can sit in his home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather, by far,… — Charles Lindbergh
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union.… — Cesar Chavez
The strike and the boycott, they have cost us much. What they have not paid us in wages, better working conditions, and new contracts, they… — Cesar Chavez
The poor, you know, have a way of solving problems...they have a tremendous capacity for suffering. And so when you build a vehicle to get… — Cesar Chavez
We can choose to use our lives for others to bring about a better and more just world for our children. People who make that… — Cesar Chavez
We must never surrender. America will get better and better. Keep hope alive. Keep hope alive. — Jesse Jackson
But as importantly, it lies in the fact that we've got citizens from all walks of life, all political parties, that are willing to say,… — George W. Bush
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
State a moral case to a plowman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he… — Thomas Jefferson

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