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And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.
Angelina Jolie

Great, Dad, Father

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
Samuel Johnson

Trust, Sometimes, Wrong

A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.
Rene Descartes

Few, State, Laws

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.
Eric Davis

Life, Nothing, Enjoy

Laugh at your friends, and if your friends are sore; So much the better, you may laugh the more.
Henry Ward Beecher

Laugh, May, Friends

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
Ray Bradbury

Great, Book, Old

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz

Down, House, Neighbors

He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third.
Thomas Paine

Faith, Real, Reason

Instead of just giving lip service to improving our schools, I will actually put the kids first and the teachers union behind in giving our kids better teachers, better options and better choices for a better future.
Mitt Romney

Future, Giving, Put

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Peace, Long, Days

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert Schweitzer

Great, Character, Mind

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nothing, Useless

And I hope that five years and 10 years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan

Good, Hope, Humble

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen Leacock

Truth, Whole, Half

The least amount of judging we can do, the better off we are.
Michael J. Fox

Judging, Off, Amount

It makes one a better person to have had hardships and to have overcome hardships and not to blame anybody else for your mistakes.
Maureen Forrester

Mistakes, Person, Blame

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian

Alone, Wise, Mad

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

Try, Else, Dance

Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Taste, Benefits, Conferred

If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Work, Good, Hard

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert

Work, Criticism, White

I am a real ham. I love an audience. I work better with an audience. I am dead, in fact, without one.
Lucille Ball

Love, Work, Real

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Kristin Chenoweth

Love, Happy, Yourself

We still believe in the America that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. We believe in the America that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves.
Mitt Romney

Freedom, America, Ourselves

Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, 'I'm an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!' So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
Mitt Romney

Family, Children, Country

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.
Charles Darwin

Good, Truth, Sometimes

The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.
Mitt Romney

Life, Family, Hard

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle

Good, Great, Old

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco Chanel

Lose, Since, Heads

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

Harmony, Hidden, Obvious

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