Better Off Quotes - Page 6

• I think this country would be much better off if we did not have capital punishment.... We cannot ignore the fact that in recent years a disturbing number of inmates on death row have been exonerated.

  John Paul Stevens

  Country, Thinking, Years

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• Global warming is a matter of national security. Will we live in a world where we must fight our neighbors for fresh water and food? Or will we take the lead now and leave to our children and grandchildren a world better off than the one we inherited from our parents?

  Wesley Clark

  Children, Fighting, Water

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• While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Ambition, Knowing

  Barack Obama's Remarks on Climate Change in Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. June 25, 2013.

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• That's an interesting paradox to think about. Make it legal and it's no good. Why? Because as long as it's illegal the people who come in do not qualify for welfare, they don't qualify for social security, they don't qualify for the other myriad of benefits that we pour out from our left pocket to our right pocket. So long as they don't qualify they migrate to jobs. They take jobs that most residents of this country are unwilling to take. They provide employers with the kind of workers that they cannot get. They're hard workers, they're good workers, and they are clearly better off.

  Milton Friedman

  Country, Jobs, Hard Work

  "Illegal Immigration: A Feature, Not A Bug, Said Milton Friedman" by Brian Doherty, reason.com. May 11, 2011.

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• These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

  Mortimer Zuckerman

  Government, Benefits, Pay

  "America’s public servants are now its masters". www.ft.com. September 10, 2010.

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• The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.

  Raimond Gaita

  People, Climate, Generations

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• There's nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.

  Herbert V. Prochnow

  Horse, Feel Better, Firsts

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• I've found that all weak people share a basic obsession - they fixate on the idea of satisfaction. Anywhere you go men and women are like crows drawn by shiny objects. For some folks, the shiny objects are other people, and you'd be better off developing a drug habit.

  Nic Pizzolatto

  Men, Ideas, People

  Nic Pizzolatto (2011). “Galveston: A Novel”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• GIVE YOUR BRAIN AS MUCH ATTENTION AS YOU DO YOUR HAIR AND YOU'LL BE A THOUSAND TIMES BETTER OFF.

  Barbara Kruger

  Hair, Giving, Brain

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• You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.

  Betty Grable

  Horse, Night, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We all get a little rush of excitement at the prospect of buying a brand-new outfit for a first date, but this is not the time. You're much better off wearing clothes, shoes especially, that you've already tested.

  Nina Garcia

  Clothes, Shoes, Firsts

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• When you're dealing with someone who only has a pair of underpants on, if you take his underpants off, he has nothing left - he's naked. You're better off trying to find him a pair of trousers to complement him rather than change him.

  Arsene Wenger

  Trying, Naked, Pairs

  "Quotes of the Week". news.bbc.co.uk. February 20, 2007.

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• I miss the closet. Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities.

  Ron Paul

  Missing, Social Pressure, Speak

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• It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

  Louis Theroux

  Lonely, Sleep, People

  Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• The world would become better off
  If people tried to become better.
  And people would become better
  If they stopped trying to become better off.

  Peter Maurin

  People, Trying, World

  Peter Maurin (2010). “Easy Essays”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The world would be better off
  if people tried to become better.
  And people would become better
  if they stopped trying to become better off.
  For when everybody tries to become
  better off,
  nobody is better off.
  But when everybody tries to become better,
  everybody is better off.

  Peter Maurin

  People, Catholic, Trying

  "Easy Essays".

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• Stars are better off without us.

  James S.A. Corey

  Stars

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• We are running ourselves into a damaged earth. But I am optimistic. I believe that we can change; we must change. As a human race, we are very young and quite primitive. The sooner we learn the greatness of humanity the better off we will all be.

  John Astin

  Running, Believe, Optimistic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a teaming up of the internal rivals - is optimal for brains. ... Some balance of the emotional and rational systems is needed, and that balance may already be optimized by natural selection in human brains.

  David Eagleman

  Emotional, Brain, Balance

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of The Brain”, p.95, Canongate Books

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• Those who don’t read the newspapers are better off than those who do insofar as those who know nothing are better off than those whose heads are filled with half-truths and lies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Lying, Half, Newspapers

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• It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

  Sinclair Lewis

  Meditation, Contentment, Facts

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.237, Penguin

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• There are those much more rare people who never lose their curiosity, their almost childlike wonder at the world; those people who continue to learn and to grow intellectually until the day they die. And these usually are the people who make contributions, who leave some part of the world a little better off than it was before they entered it.

  William Herbert Sheldon

  Learning, People, Curiosity

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• Any relationships that would reject you for being true to yourself are - by definition - abusive relationships. You'll be much better off when you let them go.

  Steve Pavlina

  Rejects You, Thought Provoking, Definitions

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• Double - no, triple - our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Motivational, People, Survival

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• I could never be a politician. But as uncomfortable as I would be doing so, I have no problem with Obama's long-planned 'change of heart.' This dude's made huge, measurable strides for gay rights, and if being coy about his plans for gay marriage for a few years was needed to get him elected, then so be it. LGBT persons will be better off, and federal same-sex marriage recognition will come sooner because of it.

  Barack Obama

  Sex, Heart, Gay

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