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You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late. Loni Anderson

Smoking, Better, You, Late, Quit, Never

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. James Herriot

Love, Gratitude, Loyalty, Pet, Soul, Off

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.' Joseph Stiglitz

Politics, Vote, Economics, Better, Trade

The sooner we get started with alternative energy sources and recognize that fossil fuels makes us less secure as a nation, and more dangerous as a planet, the better off we'll be. Lindsey Graham

Environmental, Energy, Better, Nation

The reality is that race in the United States operates on a spectrum from black to white. Doesn't mean that people who are in between don't experience racism, but it means that the closer you are to white on that spectrum, the better off you are. And the closer to black that you are on that spectrum, the worse off your are. Alicia Garza

Racism, Experience, People, Black, You

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. Warren Buffett

Teacher, Society, People, Better, Body

The mechanical loom and the calculator have shown us that technology is both disruptive and filled with opportunities. But it would be hard to find a decent argument that we would have been better off without these inventions. Oren Etzioni

Technology, Opportunities, Better, Find

The country would be a lot better off if we stopped having comment sections. And if we got rid of Twitter. Colin Powell

Better, Country, Got, Comment, Off, Lot

Experience has everywhere shown us, and especially in the Philippines, that the classes which are better off have always been addicted to peace and order because they live comparatively better and may be the losers in civil disturbances. Jose Rizal

Peace, Experience, Live, Better, Always

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. Isabel Allende

Family, Work, Education, Women, Children

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

Better, Judging, Off, Least, Amount

The nation certainly would have been better off if President Clinton could have focused on Osama bin Laden without being distracted by the Paula Jones sexual harassment case and its criminal investigation offshoots. Brett Kavanaugh

Better, Nation, Without, Focused, Off

The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense. Nick Hanauer

Rich, Economics, Better, Minimum Wage

Elephant populations in India and also in the whole of Asia are under severe stress. The captive ones are rendered jobless due to changes in the mode of transport and lifestyle of people. The ones in the wild are also no better off, as the forests are shrinking. Mark Shand

Stress, People, Elephant, Better, India

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it. Chesley Sullenberger

Generation, Better, Will, Leave, Hopes

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not. Julius Erving

Life, Change, Better, Think, You, Say

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective. Carlos Slim

Experience, Responsibility, Eye, Think

Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. Michael Moore

Morning, Good, Heart, Politics, Book

The world would be better off with multiple superpowers. When Communist USSR was a superpower, the world was better off. Janeane Garofalo

World, Better, Communist, Off, Would

I think women have the right to consult their own wishes, needs, and capacities and produce only loved, wanted children they can care for - or even no children at all. I think we would all be better off as a society if we respected women's ability to make these decisions for themselves and concentrated on caring well for the born. Katha Pollitt

Women, Children, Caring, Society, Loved

They're still advertising the added health-giving advantages of vitamins in your daily diet, although it has long since been shown that you'd be better off eating Smarties. Terry Wogan

Daily, Advertising, Eating, Better, You

We're not just designed just to work all day and run a rat race. We're designed to be in community, to volunteer, to vote, to raise our kids. And I think the more inputs and investments we can give in people to do those things, the better off we are as a community. Michael Tubbs

Work, Community, Day, People, Vote, Run

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that. Mia Love

Change, Gender, America, Better, Years

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions. Jesse James Garrett

Time, Creative, Face, Problems, Better

The way health care is funded in the U.S. is not sustainable. People are being kept alive who are probably better off dead. The cost of health care is too high, and you don't get much for it - it's twice as high in the U.S. as elsewhere, and it's because of the middlemen. Richard J. Roberts

Health, People, Care, Better, You, Alive

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off. Lewis B. Hershey

People, Better, Know, Off, Much, Hog

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