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• We travel to learn; and I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

  Maria Mitchell

  Country, Travel, Inspiration

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us - more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mean, Blessing, Giving

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• They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

  John Mayer

  Lines, Sides

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• Tell you what," he said, noticing my stare. "I know you can't get a license, but I might be able to do something better." "What?" He smiled. "How would you like to come to school with me tomorrow and see a real, live locker?" I'm pretty sure I squealed.

  Kiersten White

  Real, School, Might

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• Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

  Ani DiFranco

  Criticism, Trying, Able

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• I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.

  Drew Carey

  Moving, Thinking, Best Things

  "Drew Carey: A New Lifestyle". abcnews.go.com. November 14.

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• Every try to take a toy away from a toddler? They don't like that, do they? They start kicking and screaming. Best way to take a toy away from a toddler is distract the kid, give him something else to play with. Instead of trying to forcefully take thoughts out of your mind, give your mind something better to play with.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Kids, Play, Giving

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.148, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I've had a man and I've had a woman, and there's got to be something better.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Men

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• Let the past abolish the past when -- and if -- it can substitute something better.

  William Faulkner

  Past, Substitutes, Ifs

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.169, Modern Library

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• Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Perfection, Excellence, Mediocrity

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• Didn't it make sense that after something horrible happens, something better should follow?

  Kevin Henkes

  Should, Horrible, Make Sense

  Kevin Henkes (2013). “Bird Lake Moon”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• No one can say if you are that person who, given good paint, good brushes, and a fine canvas, can produce something better than the factory man. That is, and has always been, beyond the realm of science. You do have the attitude of the dreamer about you. For that reason, I haven't the heart to argue anymore about this - it is a hopeless talk. And for a simple factory man like me, an effort must be abandoned once its hopelessness is exposed. Only the artist perseveres in such circumstances. (193)

  David Wroblewski

  Attitude, Heart, Men

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• Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

  Frank Herbert

  Tone, Comedy, Psychological

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

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• I believe in humanity - not just you or Mother, but all mankind. Do I sound like a preacher or a cheap politician making a pretty speech? This is not what I intend to do... I believe in life, that it is sweet and that, for all its occasional bitterness, we-man, that is-are headed toward something better - fulfillment. There is much shame, however, and so much hypocrisy around us and these inhibit our fulfillment as human beings.

  F. Sionil José

  Mother, Sweet, Believe

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• There is a blessing in losing the one we love. It's the blessing of self-transformation. You don't have to who you were anymore. You've struggled. And now you can change. It doesn't mean that bits of that person won't cling to you, they will throughout your life, but they are now subsumed into something greater. That person has given you, in fact, the most important blessing, which is they gave you the blessing of transforming your soul into something better, something more beautiful.

  Emma Forrest

  Beautiful, Mean, Blessing

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• That's the trouble with a story spinner. You never know what's real and what's made up. Even when they are telling the truth, they can't stop themselves from spinning it into something better; something prettier, with more of a pattern to it.

  Philip Reeve

  Real, Stories, Patterns

  Philip Reeve (2011). “Here Lies Arthur”, p.211, Scholastic UK

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• Only Hungry Joe had something better to do each time he finished his missions. He had screaming nightmares and won fist fights with Huple's cat.

  Joseph Heller

  Cat, Fighting, Fists

  Joseph Heller (2010). “Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Filled Up, Emptiness, Moveable Feast

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature poets steal bad poets deface what they take and good poets make it into something better or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique utterly different than that from which it is torn the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time or alien in language or diverse in interest.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Unique, Stealing Things

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• I hope that something better comes along.

  Jim Henson

  "Fictional character: Rowlf the Dog". "The Muppet Movie", 1979.

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• I'm speaking of the character of human beings, not what they believe in. I'm speaking of those who won't accept a useless life just because they were born to it. I mean those who would be something better. They work, they sacrifice, they do things..." He was moved by this, and I was a little surprised that I'd said it. Yet I felt I'd had hurt him somehow. "There is blessedness in that." I said. "There's sanctity. And God or no God, there is goodness in it. I know this the way I know the mountains are out there, that the stars shine.

  Anne Rice

  Hurt, Stars, Believe

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.861, Ballantine Books

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• I took a deep breath. 'For you I've got something better than love.' What's that?' I...trust you.' Why?' You'll never hurt me.' Thank you.' But...' But, what?' I said, 'That means I'll hurt you.' Why?' 'Cause, like I said, you'll never hurt me back.

  Avi

  Hurt, Mean, Causes

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• You can't go on like you're going to start really living one day like all this is some preamble to some great life thats magically going to appear. I'm a firm believer that you have to create your own miracles, don't hold out that there's something better waiting on the other side. It doesn't work that way. When you're gone, you're gone. Don't wait.

  Perry Moore

  Waiting, Miracle, One Day

  Perry Moore (2007). “Hero”, Disney-Hyperion

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• Sometimes I think that's where most of us are. Fighting off the crazy as best we can. Trying to become something better than we were. It's that second bit that's important.

  Jim Butcher

  Crazy, Fighting, Thinking

  Jim Butcher (2012). “Cold Days: The Dresden Files, Book Fourteen”, p.87, Hachette UK

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• I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting." (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)

  Barack Obama

  Fighting, Long, Victory

  Second Presidential Election Victory Speech, delivered 7 November 2012, McCormick Place Chicago, Illinois

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