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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship.
Pietro Aretino

Friendship, Wisdom, Friends

We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
Ani DiFranco

Love, Trying, Tell

Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
Pindar

Truth, Silence, Often

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.
Jerry Garcia

Music, Trying, Five

I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.
Tina Turner

Person, Wanted, Dream

If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better.
Paula Cole

Life, Music, Question

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
Sinclair Lewis

Country, America, She

Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
Harry Browne

Life, Everything, Leaving

Better never begin than never make an end.
George Herbert

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.
Maria Sharapova

Life, Strength, Experience

When I travel, I love speaking to women around the world about the things that inspire them, the fashions they like, what makes something good and what would make it even better.
Maria Sharapova

Love, Good, Women

If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
Mickey Mantle

Live, Care, Long

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez

Education, Best, Book

There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
Larry David

Home, Thinking, After

I'm going to be so much better a president for having been at the CIA that you're not going to believe it.
George H. W. Bush

I don't just want a better deal for Britain. I want a better deal for Europe too. So I speak as British prime minister with a positive vision for the future of the European Union. A future in which Britain wants, and should want, to play a committed and active part.
David Cameron

Positive, Future, Play

Google is working on self-driving cars, and they seem to work. People are so bad at driving cars that computers don't have to be that good to be much better.
Marc Andreessen

Work, Good, Computers

Our view is that individuals and families can govern their lives better than bureaucrats.
Rick Perry

Lives, View, Families

If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.
Julie Andrews

Love, Rather, Says

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.
Wentworth Miller

Best, Person, Else

The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer.
Jessica Savitch

Coverage, Viewer

You'd think experienced political professionals would know better than to place their trust in exit polls, notoriously inaccurate surveys that had John Kerry winning the 2004 election by five points when he actually lost by three.
John Podhoretz

Trust, Political, Winning

That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather, when women are empowered, when they can speak from the experience of their own lives, they often address different, previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Men, Experience

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.
David Cone

Great, Hurt, Yourself

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
Pearl S. Buck

Religion, Strength, May

I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.
Drew Curtis

Love, Women, Nation

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
Dolores Ibarruri

Live, Die, Feet

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Rita Mae Brown

Negative, Deadline

The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent.
Billy Joel

Movies, Rock, Country

In an interesting inversion of status, the reigning breed in the dog park these days is the really-oddball-unidentifiable-mixed-breed-mutt-found-wandering-the-street or its equivalent. The stranger the mutt the better; the more peculiar the circumstance of it coming into your life, the better.
Susan Orlean

Life, Days, Dog

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