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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Samuel Butler

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.
Confucius

Friendship, Contract, Thyself

Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work, Whiskey, Cure

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins

Successful, Result, Ask

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
Booker T. Washington

Good, Alone, Yourself

So remember, it's better to burn out than fade away.
Kurt Cobain

Remember, Away, Burn

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.
Steve Jobs

Good, Country, Place

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Path, Door, Beaten

Whoever battles with monsters had better see that it does not turn him into a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Long, Him, Turn

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle

Men, Business, Special

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle

Nature, May, Another

Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
Julius Charles Hare

Step, Toward, Becoming

She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.
Oprah Winfrey

Mother, Friend, Person

A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
Steve Jobs

Experience, Design, End

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

End, High, Maybe

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.
Lao Tzu

Nature, May, Another

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe

Beauty, Boring, Genius

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

Democracy, Violence, Left

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan

Universe, Far, However

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Tony Robbins

Energy, Talent, Body

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
William Wordsworth

Life, Future, Live

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
H. L. Mencken

Truth, Lie, Free

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw

Yourself, Through, Keep

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Head, Clouds, Breathe

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.
Erma Bombeck

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
Henry David Thoreau

Faith, Happiness, Seed

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
Mae West

Overlooked, Looked

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Wisdom, Ignorance

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus

Freedom, Nothing, Chance

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