Better Off Quotes - Page 12

• Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.

  John Brunner

  Opportunity, Ideas, Giving

  John Brunner (2011). “Stand on Zanzibar”, p.216, Macmillan

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• My view is there will be problems and bad people as long as the earth exists, and since we're moving into a completely interdependent global environment, we're better off building a world we'd like to live in when the United States are not the only military superpower. That is, we need to build a world of shared responsibility, shared benefits, and shared commitment to our common humanity.

  William J. Clinton

  Military, Moving, Commitment

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• Saddam Hussein was a unique threat. And the world is better off without him in power.

  George W. Bush

  Unique, World, Hussein

  Debate at Washington University, www.cbsnews.com. October 8, 2004.

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• It is a mere futile process to exchange one set of commodities for another, if the parties; after this new distribution of goods has taken place, are not better off than they were before.

  Thomas Malthus

  Taken, Party, Commodity

  Thomas Robert Malthus (1836). “Principles of Political Economy: Considered with a View to Their Practical Application”, p.384

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• Intelligence is an interesting word. It is also something which, in my opinion, is misunderstood by many people. There are those who believe that we go to school to become intelligent. Or, the more experience a person has on a particular job, the more intelligent they become. This notion is not so. All knowledge is one hundred percent evenly present in all places, at all times. Aware is what you and I want to become. The more aware we become of this truth about intelligence, the better off we will be.

  Bob Proctor

  Jobs, Believe, School

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 15, 2012

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• When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Moments, That Moment

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• The majority falls prey to the delusion–popular in some circles–that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth–born of experience–is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

  Alex Kozinski

  Stupid, Fall, Gun

  "The Individual’s Right to Bear Arms". capitalismmagazine.com. May 22, 2003.

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• So let God know what you're doing just by doing it - or feel good about yourself. But don't rely on men and women to inspire you to do good - because we will probably often fail you with our own imperfections! We all should be trying to improve ourselves, regardless of how much better off or worse off we are than the person next to us, because we can all get better.

  Ysabella Brave

  Letting Go, Men, Imperfection

  YouTube Channel "Ysabella Brave"/"Doing Good - for the right reasons!", www.youtube.com. March 13, 2008.

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• My view is that an investor is better off knowing a lot about a few investments than knowing a little about each of a great many holdings. One's very best idea's are likely to generate higher returns for a given level of risk than one's hundredth or thousandth best idea.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Ideas, Knowing

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• I find the less you focus on your flaws, the better off you are. Be yourself and be glad of who you are.

  Michelle Pfeiffer

  Being Yourself, Focus, Flaws

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• I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into shape. I actually think this shift toward right-brain abilities has the potential to make us both better off and better in a deeper sense.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Leadership, Thinking, Brain

  "Why right-brainers will rule this century". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.cnn.com. May 7, 2009.

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• I want and need the artist to take me to new places, and the new place that Van Gogh took me not the sky as it is but the sky as he felt it. And the more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Artist, Sky, Want

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• I wish heroes didn't exist. Whenever we need a hero, it's because there's a problem that needs to be solved; it's because two groups of people, or two countries, are hurting one another, so a hero is needed to save us. If everyone were at peace, if everyone were happy, why would we need heroes? The world is better off without heroes.

  Jet Li

  Country, Hurt, Hero

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• I applaud the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Couple, Gay

  "Obama On Gay Marriage Rulings: President Applauds Supreme Court Decisions". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2013.

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• The better your base is, and the more you know from experience, the better off you'll be when you try and make the big move.

  Joan Jett

  Moving, Trying, Bigs

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• Any small business owner wears many hats. We [New View Window Cleaning] are the salesman, bookkeeper, scheduler, cleaner, customer complaint department, etc. If you aren't organized and willing to do all these things (at least in the beginning) you are better off working for someone.

  Tony Evans

  Views, Etc, Hats

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• You're better off owning 30 percent and having two amazing partners who compliment you and are equally as driven as you are than having 100 percent and only having one aspect of it, unless you're a super genius who is creative and business-minded at the same time.

  Rob Dyrdek

  Compliments You, Two, Creative

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• The more I have to do, the better off I am. I'm not really one to sit around and relax and take it easy. I always like having something to do. Even though I'm not competing, I'm going to be making a lot of appearances, doing guest posings and seminars.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Relax, Guests, Appearance

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• Free enterprise is a natural result of the American form of government, which says in so many words that the more men do for themselves, the less government does for them, the better off we will all be.

  Felix Morley

  Wisdom, Men, Doe

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• the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

  Susan Faludi

  Heart, Argument, Sexism

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?

  Joshua Fernandez

  Pain, Leader, World

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• Jesus offered a single incentive to follow himto summarize his selling point: 'Follow me, and you might be happy-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be empowered-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have more friends-or you might not. Follow me, and you might have the answers-or you might not. Follow me, and you might be better off-or you might not. If you follow me, you may be worse off in every way you use to measure life. Follow me nevertheless. Because I have an offer that is worth giving up everything you have: you will learn to love well.'

  Samir Selmanovic

  Jesus, Giving Up, Use

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• In fact, if you are faced with the prospect of running across an open field in which lightning bolts are going to be a problem, you are much better off if their timing and location are determined by something, since then they may be predictable by you, and hence avoidable. Determinism is the friend, not the foe, of those who dislike inevitability.

  Daniel Dennett

  Running, May, Fields

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• I defend the right of almost everything to be published... because I think that you're better off in trusting the marketplace than allowing other people to make that decision.

  Christie Hefner

  Thinking, People, Decision

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

  John Wayne

  Thinking, United States, Would Be

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