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  The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

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  Sherry Argov

  Girl, Giving Up, Nice

  Sherry Argov, “Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship”

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• Chemotherapy is a good thing even though it kills healthy cells. But we still hope for something better. We'd like to prevent cancer in the first place.

  Jaron Lanier

  Cancer, Cells, Healthy

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top. Still it should be said of the political left, we expect something better. And correctly. We put more trust in those who show a measure of compassion, who denounce the hideous social arrangements that make war inevitable and human desire omnipresent; which fosters corporate selfishness, panders to appetites and disorder, waste the earth.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Army, Compassion

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do something better. We can improve water technology, or energy efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's where innovation starts.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Technology, Water, Innovation

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.

  George Harrison

  Trying, Doe, Want

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• If I got a superpower I wouldn't say, oh, I got to get a costume and put on a mask. I would say hey, I can do something better than other people. How can I turn it into a buck?

  Stan Lee

  People, Hey, Bucks

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's really daunting when you have just spent a lot of time on something to think about tossing it out. But once you've started something better that's working right, then it's pretty easy to let the first one go.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Thinking, Firsts, Easy

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• This is true in other fields, too, that a legal aid lawyer gets a whole lot less money than a Hollywood lawyer who handles the estates of celebrities. Maybe the legal aid lawyer is doing something better, though, and maybe they're happier. It's not a completely unheard of idea, but I do think we have to remind ourselves at times to look for satisfaction in other ways.

  Alice Mattison

  Thinking, Ideas, Hollywood

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What I hate is when something I've done is replaced by something better than what I've done. It's really embarrassing.

  Paula Scher

  Hate, Done, Embarrassing

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• To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Chance, Strive

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I would say, in humanity, there is some unbreakable element that makes us so special, and I would call that hope or a belief in something better. It's something that drives us.

  Richard Sammel

  Humanity, Special, Elements

  Source: collider.com

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• I feel like if you compare yourself to other successful musicians you will never be successful, because there will always be someone above you who has done something more or done something first or done something better.

  Thomston

  Successful, Musician, Done

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• There is an enormous inertia that prevents people from change. You must always remember that it is impossible to make something better if you don't make it different - the converse is not true, of course. You cannot make something better unless it is different. And different scares the life out of so many people.

  Amar Bose

  People, Scare, Different

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• I am an optimistic fatalist. This world and all its beginnings will pass on into something better.

  George MacDonald

  Optimistic, World, This World

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• Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2013). “Religion From the Essays of Arhur Schopenhauer”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• There's just enough drinking and cheating songs around without me adding to them. Unless you've got something better than "Misery and Gin" by Merle Haggard, you're beating a dead horse.

  Aaron Watson

  Cheating, Song, Horse

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• Sometimes something good has to be subtracted from our lives before something better can take its place.

  Ann Spangler

  Sometimes, Our Lives

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• By working to get away from your circumstance you can make something better of yourself, but there’s no guarantee... But you know what? The joy of it is chasing that dream.

  Jon Stewart

  Dream, Joy, Guarantees

  "The Daily Show", March 19, 2009.

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• In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile - and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: Not necessarily to Win, but mainly to keep from Losing Completely.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Winning, Sheep, Pigs

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.98, Pan Macmillan

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• We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Government, Giving, Together

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, Creative

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• I am aware that many divines are far more marvelous than I am, and that I cannot wholly appreciate merits so far transcending my own. Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

  Bertrand Russell

  Thinking, Omnipotence, Appreciate

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• I didn't like The Wiz and it wasn't because black people were doing it. I didn't like The Wiz because it was a badly made movie off a classic. Why are you remaking something unless you have something better in mind?

  Harry Belafonte

  People, Black, Mind

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• Everything on this earth can be made into something better. Every defeat may be made the foundation of a future victory. Every lost war may be the cause of a later resurgence. Every visitation of distress can give a new impetus to human energy. And out of every oppression those forces can develop which bring about a new rebirth.

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Giving, Victory

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.320, eKitap Projesi

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• Crowdsourcing is a great way to approach creation because in any given point there's always somebody on the Internet who knows something better than you do.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Way, Internet, Creation

  "Guy Kawasaki Interview on His Latest Book - APE". Interview with Helen Nesterenko, writtent.com. January 11, 2013.

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