- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Better Quotes
On growth, progress and making things better.
These quotes range from finishing a piece of writing that finally feels worth sharing to teamwork producing stronger results than working alone, with a side note on technology's uneven effect on security. For more, see our Growth quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fields of southwest Iowa, my parents and grandparents worked and sacrificed. Like so many Iowans, the American Dream for them was never about wealth or fame. Their dream was to leave their children and grandchildren a better life, with greater opportunity, than their own.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I support organizations that help people do better for themselves and the community.
- I Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of my better gifts as a writer is empathy.
- Nov 07, 2020
Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.
- Do Your Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the things I've done are about duty and guilt: trying to do your best to better other people's lives.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a better way to talk about eating animals, a way that doesn't ignore or even just shruggingly accept things like habits, cravings, family and history but rather incorporates them into the conversation. The more they are allowed in, the more able we will be to follow our best instincts.
- Hot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.
- Bad Stuff
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consumers are going to have get used to eating less meat - to paying more for better quality meat and eating significantly less of it.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the end of the day, coming home to that one person that you know has your back, there's no better feeling.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020