- Life
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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
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's perhaps no better way to understand what's happening in a marriage than being inside the home.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wal-Mart's slogan 'Save money, live better' promises a lot. So does its entrance into Chicago.
- American Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The American public believes the Founding Fathers were close to infallible and that, while our political system has its faults, it functions far better than other democracies. But is it true?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get better and take more risks. I need to sing with other people. I need to access parts of me that aren't being accessed in the Cocteau Twins.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.
- Cakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have that deep kind of hunger that is part longing, what's better to eat than the best apple pie? Or the best potato salad and guacamole? Or the best deviled eggs and crab cakes and white chocolate raspberry pie?
- Nov 07, 2020
It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is better not to sit on the grass after thirty when sprawling at all is difficult, let alone sprawling gracefully.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.
- Capabilities
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- Nov 07, 2020
People in general romanticize nature, and they make it out to be something that it isn't because humans are so awful. And yes, we are absolutely screwing up this planet, but that is only because we have the capabilities to do so. Animals are not better than us. They are not nicer than us.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a newcomer to politics, I knew in my bones that we as a country were better than what we see coming out of Washington. And we are.
- Dialects
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- Nov 07, 2020
In college, I went to school for acting; we had to learn phonetics just to be able to do dialects and all that stuff. I'm somebody who does better just hearing it. I'll just imitate it, and I get it better that way. When I know too much information, I'm not great.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020