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“Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.” — Lee Iacocca

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“Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.” — Aristotle

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“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.” — Albert Camus

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“No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.” — Rudyard Kipling

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“So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.” — Steve Jobs

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“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.” — Steve Jobs

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“We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.” — Steve Jobs

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“I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” — Napoleon Hill

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“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“It is best to live however one can be.” — Sophocles

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“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.” — Lao Tzu

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“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.” — Ayn Rand

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“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” — Winston Churchill

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“That government is best which governs least.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!” — Oliver Wendell Holmes

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“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.” — Franz Kafka

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“There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.” — Lee Iacocca

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“No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” — Steve Jobs

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“The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.” — Andrew Carnegie

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