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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Fate, Joy, Sorrow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1891). “The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

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• Ultimately, it comes down to taste. It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you're doing. Picasso had a saying: good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas, and I think part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Memorable, Thinking

  "The Television Program Transcripts: Part III". www.pbs.org.

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• The best thing about this group of candidates
  is that only one of them can win.

  Will Rogers

  Winning, Government, Political

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• It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things humans have done. And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing.

  Steve Jobs

  Leadership, Trying, Done

  "Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal". Interview, www.youtube.com. 1994.

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• I'm sure a lot of you had this experience when you're changing. You're growing as a person and people tend to treat you like you were 18 months ago, and it's really frustrating sometimes when you're growing up and you're more capable. It's the same thing with a company and the press. The press is going to have a lag time. The best thing we can do about the press is embrace them and do the best thing we can to educate them about our strategy. But to keep our eye on the prize, that is turning out some great products. the press and the stock prize will take care of themselves.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Eye

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• Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.

  Basil Hume

  Death, Love You, Long

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• Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Journey, Discovery

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• I think for me the best thing about being a woman is that I get credit for things I should be doing anyway.

  Jenna Lyons

  Women, Thinking, Credit

  "Glamour Women Of The Year Awards Honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Lena Dunham, Zaha Hadid And Others" by Margaret Wheeler Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2012.

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• The best thing to do with a bad smell is to get rid of it.

  Carol Kendall

  Smell, Things To Do

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• It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

  Stephen Fry

  Depression, Being Depressed, Lethargy

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• All the people you have killed, all the lies you have told have come back to haunt you and the best thing the Labour Party can do is sack you tomorrow morning.

  George Galloway

  Morning, Lying, Party

  "Galloway wins in Bethnal Green & Bow - confirmed" by Neil McIntosh, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2005.

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• This world is suchier than we are, and the best thing to do is keep moving and find your keys.

  Daniel Handler

  Moving, Keys, World

  "Adverbs". Book by Daniel Handler, 2006.

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• I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

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• I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at Jesus, because if a person does this, they will realize that the Jesus they learned about in Sunday school or the Jesus they hear jokes about or the skinny, Gandhi Jesus that exists in their imaginations isn't anything like the real Jesus at all.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Real, School

  Donald Miller (2004). “Searching for God Knows What”, p.19, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Getting out of Russia was the best thing my parents did. I mean, that country will never amount to anything.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Country, Mean, Russia

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a dream come true. These are the kinds of things that we sit around talking to each other about in our dusty libraries. To see these conversations take place in popular culture is the best thing that could have ever happened.

  Reza Aslan

  Dream, Integrity, Talking

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The best thing you can hope for, when you make a movie and you put your soul into it, is that people respond to it well.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Soul, Wells

  Source: collider.com

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• The best thing a society can do is ensure its children are taken care of.

  Brigid Schulte

  Children, Taken, Care

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The best thing in the world [is] a strong house held in serenity where man and wife agree.

  Homer

  Strong, Men, Wife

  Homer, William Shakespeare (2015). “Delphi Poetry Anthology: The World's Greatest Poems”, p.62, Delphi Classics

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• [Freedom] is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest of all goods: the best things come from within they are such things as creative art, and love, and thought. Such things can be helped or hindered by political conditions, but not actually produced by them; and freedom is, both in itself and in its relation to these other goods the best thing that political and economic conditions can secure.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Creative, Political

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.85, Booklassic

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• One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Writing, Including

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.11, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Editors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Kalki is the best thing that has ever happened to me. I am madly in love with her.

  Anurag Kashyap

  Madly In Love, Dynamite, Happened

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• The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Giving, Feelings, Looks

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• Silence is often the best thing to say.

  Frank Herbert

  Silence, Silence Is

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.105, Penguin

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