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While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.
John Adams

Government, While, Three

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Jung

Human, Sometimes, Between

One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Act, Obedience, Sermons

Love or hatred must constantly increase between two persons who are always together; every moment fresh reasons are found for loving or hating better.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Together, Two

Don't let negativity affect your vision. A lot of people have said harsh things, but I don't let it affect me. If anything it gives me more enthusiasm and pushes me to do better in my career so I can prove them wrong.
Nicole Polizzi

Career, Said, Wrong

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber

Questions, Answers

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Politics, Truth, Half

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.
Persis Khambatta

Insecurity, Insecure, Creative

Leadership is getting players to believe in you. If you tell a teammate you're ready to play as tough as you're able to, you'd better go out there and do it. Players will see right through a phony. And they can tell when you're not giving it all you've got.
Larry Bird

Leadership, Giving, Through

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.
Malcolm Forbes

Hope, Bad, Thought

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon

Worse, Alter, Altered

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
Douglas MacArthur

Faith, Shall, Based

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.
John Dewey

Good, Moving, Become

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Peace, War, Unjust

Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian Tracy

Women, Men, Decision

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good, Men, Truly

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.
Samuel Butler

Point, Temper, Dispute

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
Orison Swett Marden

Best, Giving, Give

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.
Dwight L. Moody

Book, Bible, Defend

A good boss makes his men realize they have more ability than they think they have so that they consistently do better work than they thought they could.
Charles Erwin Wilson

Work, Good, Men

Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Faith, Someone, Thinking

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Health, Alone

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Stephen King

Good, Evil, Goodness

You will never succeed while smarting under the drudgery of your occupation, if you are constantly haunted with the idea that you could succeed better in something else.
Orison Swett Marden

Else, Succeed, Idea

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
Blaise Pascal

Mind, Others, Themselves

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps

Beauty, True, Humility

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Congress, Market, Happening

I just like to keep challenging myself, keep it varied. It's a craft, and I'm constantly trying to learn and get better at it.
Clive Owen

Trying, Keep, Learn

No one can give you better advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yourself, Give, Advice

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
Chuck Palahniuk

Education, Game, Left

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