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• An earthly immortality belongs to a great and good character. History embalms it; it lives in its moral influence, in its authority, in its example, in the memory of the words and deeds in which it was manifested; and as every age adds to the illustrations of its efficacy, it may chance to be the best understood by a remote posterity.

  Edward Everett

  Memories, Character, Illustration

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.576

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• I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Want, Best Person, Persons

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• England and the United States are natural allies, and should be the best of friends.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Allies, United States, England

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.460, Cosimo, Inc.

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• children may need challenges and high-risk conditions in order to develop the self-generated immunity to trauma that characterizes survivors. To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

  Gail Sheehy

  Children, Order, Self

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• Be very circumspect in the choice of thy company. In the society of thine equals thou shalt enjoy more pleasure; in the society of thy superiors thou shalt find more profit. To be the best in the company is the way to grow worse; the best means to grow better is to be the worst there.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Choices, Way

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.36

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• Americans ought to be the best-traveled, most cosmopolitan people on earth, not only because experience of the world is desirable in its own right, but because as a people acquires a great concentration of power, worldliness becomes a moral imperative.

  Shana Alexander

  Travel, People, World

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• I want to be the best player to ever play this game.

  Adrian Peterson

  Player, Nfl, Games

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• I was only driven to be the best and it was very disheartening sometimes that it took me so long to start getting my voice heard. That certainly started with television, but it was never because of where I came from, it was because people saw something in me.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Voice, Long, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I don't feel competition at all. I just feel like I want to be the best. In everything that Michael (Jackson) did, he was the best. When he was dancing, when he was singing, he always wanted to be the best, and that's me... He's the guideline.

  Justin Bieber

  Dancing, Competition, Singing

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I give up so much to do what I do. Like, I give up a personal life. I give up my friends, my family. I give up a lot of stuff to pursue what I love and to make my fans happy. I give up so much. So, I'm going to be the best.

  Justin Bieber

  Giving Up, Fans, Stuff

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• Why would I give up so much to just be another singer or another person doing what he loves? I'm out here doing everything to the best of my capability to be the best.

  Justin Bieber

  Giving Up, Singers, Capability

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• When I release something, I'm like, "OK, I want it to be the best." When I release my fragrance, I want it to be the number one fragrance. I don't want it to be like, "Oh yeah, you got ninth on the rankings."

  Justin Bieber

  Numbers, Want, Ranking

  "Interview: Justin Bieber Talks About His Top 5 Rappers, Selena Gomez, and Growing Up In The Game". Interview with Joe la Puma, www.complex.com. March 30, 2012.

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• I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.

  Doc Brown

  Thinking, Focus, Risk

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• Even going to college, getting my degree in Radio TV and Film, as I was approaching the time when you have to decide on a major, I kept trying to figure out what would be the best major to enhance what I am doing as a performer.

  Jeff Dunham

  College, Trying, Tvs

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• I've never really considered myself as being the best bodybuilder. I always try to let the people decide that. I just try to do the best I can do at whatever it is that I'm doing.

  Ronnie Coleman

  People, Trying, Bodybuilder

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• The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you

  Michael Dell

  Best Things, Happens

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• Don't worry about wearing the sign; be the sign. You don't have to wear a sandwich board saying, "I am religious and spiritual and know what you should do." You do have to be the best of the mystical presence that your tradition brings. Certainly in Christianity, that means that you begin to go through life putting on the mind of Jesus, trying to see the world as Jesus saw the world.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Religious, Jesus

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• The best way to do business with a liar is confront them with the truth. Tell them that you do business as a partner. If your lying customer still can't see the light, tell him that you may not be the best choice for business, and that you think you have someone that can serve him better. Then, refer him to the competitor that you hate the most.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Hate, Liars, Lying

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• A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.

  B. F. Skinner

  Disappointment, Errors, Might

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• And to all of you, what it really comes down to is: If you're buying a book with my name on it, I feel I owe it to you to have it be the best book that I can make it.

  Peter David

  Book, Names, Buying

  Peter David (2016). “Knight Life”, p.6, Courier Dover Publications

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• It is never too late to be who you want to be.

  George Eliot

  Successful, Goal, Be Who You Are

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• My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord's plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.

  David Murphy

  Baseball, Winning, Player

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• Messi won 3 Ballons d'Or and is competing for another one. He will be the best player in the world until he retires.

  Sergio Aguero

  Player, Messi, World

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• Messi has all the conditions to be the best.

  Romario

  Messi, Conditions

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• Messi is the best player in the world. If he's not already, he'll be the best footballer of all time.

  LeBron James

  Player, Messi, World

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