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  I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

  Tom Brady

  Thinking, Challenges, Sometimes

  The Patriots Interview, www.patriots.com. January 22, 2015.

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• The best thing about improv is that no matter how bad your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again. The worst thing is no matter how good your show is, it's only 30 minutes, and never exists again.

  Mick Napier

  Matter, Minutes, Worst

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• Perhaps the best thing which can be said about newspapers in the United States is that they are in chronic disagreement with each other. That is what is meant by a free press.

  Jim Bishop

  United States, Newspapers, Said

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• The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.

  Chelsea Leyland

  Song, Expression, People

  "DJ Chelsea Leyland Talks Music and Fashion!". Interview with Laura Rosenfeld, www.seventeen.com. August 26, 2011.

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• Working is the best thing for me because I'm borderline ADHD, so I need some kind of focus or I go a bit extreme. I need work to keep me sensible.

  Jaime Winstone

  Focus, Needs, Kind

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• I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.

  Lily Cole

  Strange, Coincidence, Reason

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Factory farming is terrible for the environment—not to mention that it's gross. The best thing you can do, if you think about it, is to become a vegetarian and just spread the word. The world would change for the better for animals, humans, and the planet if everyone took that step.

  Christofer Drew

  Thinking, Animal, World

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• The best thing parents can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning.

  Carol S. Dweck

  Children, Mistake, Parent

  Carol S. Dweck (2006). “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, p.176, Random House

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• The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Witty, Self, Able

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.124

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• The best thing next to wit is a consciousness that it is not in us; without wit, a man might then know how to behave himself, so as not to appear to be a fool or a coxcomb.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Might, Next

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• The best things are placed between extremes.

  Aristotle

  Extremes

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• Wretched, ephemeral race, children of chance and tribulation, why do you force me to tell you the very thing which it would be most profitable for you not to hear? The very best thing is utterly beyond your reach: not to have been born, not to be, to be nothing. However, the second best thing for you is: to die soon.

  Aristotle

  Children, Race, Would Be

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• Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Sports, Wings, Next

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• Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

  Gilda Radner

  Fall, Riding, Actors

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• The best things beyond their measure cloy.

  Homer

  Discontent

  Homer (1796). “The Iliad of Homer”, p.81

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• Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good.

  Joseph Hall

  Evil, Used, Worst

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.85

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• When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Death, People, Feelings

  1961 The Mighty and Their Fall, ch.4.

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• All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.

  John Ruskin

  White, Snow, Progress

  John Ruskin (188?). “Works: "A joy forever." The art of England. "Our fathers have told us." The laws of Fesole. The pleasures of England. Fiction fair and foul. Notes on the construction of sheepfolds. Inaugural address ... Cambridge School of Art, October 29th, 1858. The storm cloud of the nineteenth century. The opening of the Crystal Palace”

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• The best thing about being God would be making the heads.

  Iris Murdoch

  Would Be

  Iris Murdoch (1976). “A Severed Head”, p.36, Penguin

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• All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Distance, Perspective, Firsts

  Elizabeth Goudge (2001). “The Little White Horse”, p.91, Penguin

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• Frankly, goin' crazy was the best thing that ever happened to me. I don't say it's for everybody; some people couldn't cope.

  Jane Wagner

  Crazy, People, Insanity

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• The best thing must be to flee from all to the All.

  Teresa of Avila

  God

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• I work rather blindly. I have a theory that seems to work with me that some of the best things you ever do sort of come through you. You don't know where you get the impetus and response to what's before your eyes.

  Walker Evans

  Photography, Eye, Photographer

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• The best thing about liver is how virtuous it makes you feel after you've eaten some.

  Bruce Jay Friedman

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

  Bruce Jay Friedman (1978). “The Lonely Guy: And, The Slightly Older Guy”, p.33, Grove Press

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• Every time I get sexually harassed, I'm supposed to turn around and yell at the person, but there are safety issues. Sometimes the best thing you can do it just walk right past that person and have a great day. But sometimes you feel like you really need to say something.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Past, Issues, Safety

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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