Better Off Quotes - Page 9

• Tom Regan’s now classic Case for Animal Rights blends careful argument with intense moral concern. For two decades, where Regan has been taken seriously, animals have been better off and people have become better persons. This new edition is a welcome sign of this influence continuing.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Taken, Animal, Rights

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• Many people don't know, but American Girl Scouts get to travel the world, and that's a very good thing, as the more we can expose our young people to other cultures, the better off we'll be in this increasingly globalized environment.

  Anna Maria Chavez

  Girl, Other Cultures, People

  "It’s All About Doing Some Thinking on This Very Special Day" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com.

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• Life's for the living, so live it, or you're better off dead.

  Passenger

  Better Off Dead

  Song: Life's for the Living

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• I just think my children and your children would be much better off and much more successful getting married and raising a family, and I don't want them brainwashed into thinking that homosexuality is an equally valid and successful option. It isn't.

  Carl Paladino

  Children, Successful, Thinking

  "Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Stir National Fury". "Tell Me More" with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. October 12, 2010.

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• Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that.

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

  Jobs, School, Proud

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• Most of us have enough excuses to last a lifetime. The sooner we let go of them and get on with living, the better off we are.

  Tim Hansel

  Letting Go, Lasts, Lifetime

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• The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

  Philip Pullman

  Sex, Book, Kids

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• Men are afraid to rock the boat in which they hope to drift safely through life's currents, when, actually, the boat is stuck on a sandbar. They would be better off to rock the boat and try to shake it loose.

  Thomas Szasz

  Men, Rocks, Trying

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.140, Transaction Publishers

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• What a lovely place this world would be if only people would feel affection for everyone else, and all the ugliness of the human heart were to vanish - our envy of those better off than ourselves and our scorn for those worse off.

  Sayo Masuda

  Heart, Envy, People

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• Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

  Mark Zuckerberg

  Moving, Risk, Trying

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• Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

  Alice Steinbach

  Lonely, Independent, Divorce

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• Freedom has its dangers as well as its joys. And the sooner we learn to get up after a fall, the better off we'll be.

  Alice Steinbach

  Fall, Joy, Get Up

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• It really is my opinion that media in general are so bad that we have to question whether the world wouldn't be better off without them altogether. They are so distortive to how the world actually is that the result is.. we see wars, and we see corrupt governments continue on.

  Julian Assange

  War, Lying, Government

  "WikiLeaks revelations only tip of iceberg - Assange". Interview with Laura Emmett, www.rt.com. May 2, 2011.

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• I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  Thinking, Documentation, Deeper

  Interview with Dave Mandl, believermag.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  Struggle, Hands, Two

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• If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return.

  Mark Cuban

  Inspiring, Entrepreneur, Debt

  "10 Tips Mark Cuban Would Give His Younger Self" by Drew Hendricks, www.inc.com.

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• Talk faith. The world is better off without, Your uttered ignorance and morbid doubt.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Faith, Ignorance, Doubt

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1908). “Poems of power”

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• Sometimes I think we'd all be better off if the people who mean well would just creep away and die.

  Eddie Dean

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Early diagnosis is so important because the earlier a mental illness can be detected, diagnosed and treatment can begin, the better off that person can be for the rest of his or her life.

  Rosalynn Carter

  Important, Diagnosis, Mental Illness

  "Rosalynn Carter: Advocate for the mentally ill". Interview with Julian Guthrie, www.sfgate.com. August 11, 2010.

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• What freedom and hope is found in Christ! We don’t need to feel beautiful about ourselves to find happiness! In fact, we’re better off not even thinking about ourselves. Rather, God has offered us in Jesus Christ forgiveness, hope, freedom from sin and a joy that never ends.

  Carolyn Mahaney

  Beautiful, Jesus, Thinking

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• The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  World, Feels, Universe

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• It seems to be almost a law of human nature that it is easier for people to agree on a negative program - on the hatred of an enemy, on the envy of those better off - than on any positive task.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Law, People, Envy

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• I could have signed for Newcastle when I was 17, but I decided I would be better off at Carlisle. I'd had a drink that night.

  Peter Beardsley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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• The moments of grace usually give us more than one good thing we can do, and we do well if we manage a pretty good batting average. ... It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situations - It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Healing, Opportunity, People

  "A Life of Distinction: What It Takes to Live with Courage, Honesty, and Gratitude".

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• It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

  Adam Schiff

  Wisdom, War, Iraq

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