- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Off Quotes
Weighing what genuinely leaves people better off.
Whether it is a child suited to a particular kind of schooling or a society better served by informed journalism, these quotes turn on the idea that some paths leave people measurably better off than others. Related reading continues on Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Economy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The total station economy is about $800 million dollars a year, and about $90 million comes from the government. In the long run, we would be better off without federal funding.
- Challenge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen.
- Great Spirit
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Europe and the United States are better off extending a helping hand to those who know best rather than dictating to them an unfamiliar future.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't tell people who disagree with you they'd be better off somewhere else. And you don't reduce them to stereotypes; you address them as fully formed people worthy of respect. You try to persuade them.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are many days when I want to throw my computer out the window, when I tell myself I'd be better off selling shoes at the mall. But I always keep at it, because I have to. Writing is completely part of who I am. Even if I never published another book, I would keep at it - because it feeds my life and makes it richer.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Part of what is wrong with the view of American imperialism is that it is antithetical to our interests. We are better off when people are governing themselves. I'm sure there is some guy that will tell you that philosophy is no different from the Roman Empire's. Well, it is fundamentally different.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
- Not Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
An actor shouldn't undergo psychoanalysis, because there are a lot of things you're better off not knowing.
- Pain
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're not willing to accept the pain real values incur, don't bother going to the trouble of formulating a values statement. You'll be better off without one.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot easier to figure out how to scale something that doesn't feel like it would scale than it is to figure out what is actually gonna work. You're much better off going after something that will work that doesn't scale, then trying to figure how to scale it up, than you are trying to figure it all out.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020