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• Children are wonderful but they are not the center of the universe. The sooner their parents make them understand that, the better off we all will be.

  LZ Granderson

  Children, Parent, Wonderful

  "Permissive parents: Curb your brats". edition.cnn.com. July 5, 2011.

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• He said, I'm better off without her, until I showed him my tattoo.

  Tom Waits

  Tattoo, Advice, Said

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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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• As a woman you are better off in life earning your own money. You couldn't prevent your husband from leaving you or taking another wife, but you could have some of your dignity if you didn't have to beg him for financial support.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Husband, Wife, Support

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• If y'can't see with yore own two eyes what's in front of them, then y'better off closin' 'em an' goin' t'sleep, 'tis far more restful! —Gerul

  Brian Jacques

  Sleep, Eye, Two

  Brian Jacques (2012). “The Pearls Of Lutra”, p.305, Random House

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• [...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I like to do when things aren't going well. Because what does it mean, to say that things aren't going well? Compared to what? You can say: compared to how things were going a couple of hours ago, or a couple of years ago. But that's not the point. If two cars are speeding towards a brick wall with no brakes, and one car hits the wall moments before the other, you can't spend those moments saying that the second car is much better off than the first.

  Hugh Laurie

  Couple, Wall, Mean

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• Leave it to you, Bella. Anyone else would be better off when the vampires left town. But you have to start hanging out with the first monsters you can find.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Vampire, Monsters, Would Be

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• Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Knowing, Sometimes, Realizing

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• If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Would Be

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• And the worst part is before it gets any better we're heading for a cliff. And in the free fall I will realize I'm better off when I hit the bottom

  Hayley Williams

  Fall, Cliffs, Realizing

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• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

  Ray Bradbury

  Girl, Wind, Better Off Dead

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.29, Hamilton Books

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• Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must also be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way...We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Our World, Knowing, Decision

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, 2005.

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• The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.

  Michael J. Fox

  Judging, Judgement, Can Do

  Interview with Amy Wallace, www.rd.com. March 29, 2010.

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• The Hispanic community understands the American Dream and have not forgotten what they were promised - that in the U.S., a free market system, allows us all to succeed economically, achieve stability and security for your family and leave your children better off than yourselves.

  Marco Rubio

  Dream, Children, Community

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• Do not let yourself be bothered by the inconsequential. One has only so much time in this world, so devote it to the work and the people most important to you, to those you love and things that matter. One can waste half a lifetime with people one doesn't really like, or doing things when one would be better off somewhere else.

  Louis L'Amour

  Somewhere Else, People, Important

  Louis L'Amour (2014). “The Sacketts Volume One 5-Book Bundle: Sackett's Land, To the Far Blue Mountains, The Warrior's Path, Jubal Sackett, Ride the River”, p.862, Bantam

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• If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Ideas, Mind, Might

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• Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?" (Orik) (Eldest) (Page 207)

  Christopher Paolini

  Better Off Dead, Might, Pages

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• The thing about exploring is that you have to know whether the thing you've found is worth finding. Some things are just sitting there, minding their own business, waiting to be discovered. Like America. And other things are probably better off left alone. Like a dead mouse at the back of the cupboard.

  John Boyne

  Life, America, Waiting

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• According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Motivational, Death

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• I stare into a thin, web-like crack above the urinal's handle and think to myself that if I were to disappear into that crack, say somehow miniaturize and slip into it, the odds are good that no one would notice I was gone. No... one... would... care. In fact some, if they noticed my absence, might feel an odd, indefinable sense of relief. This is true: the world is better off with some people gone. Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Odds, People

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• Then the lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of Heaven; and He overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground. So it goes. Those were vile people in both those cities, as is well known. The world was better off without them. And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Home, Fire, Cities

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• I have achieved what I wanted to achieve. I'm better off at some sort of independent place where they not only like what I produce but also trust me to be the one to produce it.

  Keith Olbermann

  Independent, Trust Me, Achieve

  "The Confessions of Keith Olbermann". Interview with Marisa Guthrie, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 8, 2011.

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• ...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

  Libba Bray

  Dream, Reality, Differences

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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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