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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Technology, Able, Today

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• Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

  Steven Pinker

  Wish, Would Be, Needs

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• However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they wanted class revolution.

  Steven Pinker

  Class, Want, Might

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• When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I'm going to do a big scene that's dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.

  Al Pacino

  Trying, Actors, Serious

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• One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

  Julius Erving

  Thinking, Things In Life, Ignorant

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• We have no reason to think that climate change is harmful if you look at the world as a whole. Most places, in fact, are better off being warmer than being colder. And historically, the really bad times for the environment and for people have been the cold periods rather than the warm periods.

  Freeman Dyson

  Thinking, People, Facts

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• There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

  Hilary Duff

  Stress, Weight, Body

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• If heavy metal bands ruled the world, we'd be a lot better off.

  Bruce Dickinson

  World, Band, Heavy Metal

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

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• You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

  Cat Deeley

  Wrong Person, Persons

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• In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Stars, Rocks, Paper

  "Jarvis Cocker answers your questions: 'Go on, then, give us the horrible ones'". Interview with Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2011.

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• I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

  Hillary Clinton

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

  Warren Buffett

  Teacher, People, Degrees

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• You want to know whether we're better off? I've got a little bumper sticker for you: Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive. Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive! Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive!

  Joe Biden

  Alive, Want, Littles

  "Obama dogged by negatives". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. September 5, 2012.

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• Culture carries no privilege to exist. Cultures do not have value simply because they are. Some cultures, the world is better off without.

  Terry Goodkind

  Culture, World, Privilege

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Soul Of The Fire”, p.270, Head of Zeus

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• When Communist U.S.S.R. was a superpower, the world was better off. The right-wing media is trying to marginalize the peace movement.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Media, Wings, Trying

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• What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its cover. We believe that we are always better off gathering as much information as possible and spending as much time as possible in deliberation.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Children, Believe, Book

  "It pays to trust your gut" by Daniel Terdiman, www.wired.com. January 7, 2005.

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• When people are around us, they should leave better off than they were previously. Rather than feeling discouraged or defeated, people should feel challenged and inspired after spending any time with you and me.

  Joel Osteen

  People, Feelings, Inspired

  Joel Osteen (2009). “Become a Better You: 7 Keys to Improving Your Life Every Day”, p.136, Simon and Schuster

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• Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake.

  Barack Obama

  Military, Mistake, Mean

  "Obama Libya Speech Strongly Defends Intervention" by Ben Feller, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2011.

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• If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

  Grandma Moses

  People, Would Be, Paint

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• Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president.

  Michael Moore

  Morning, Reading, Book

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• I love England but everything that has happened makes me realise that I would be better off in the States.

  Heather Mills

  England, Would Be, States

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• I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

  Joyce Meyer

  People, I've Learned, Knows

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• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Mom, Father, Would Be

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

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• If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

  James Herriot

  Inspiring, Loyalty, Gratitude

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.232, Pan Macmillan

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• Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

  Ezra Pound

  No Friends, Remember, Rich

  Ezra Pound, “The Garrett”

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