#bet

Everyone assumes America must play the leading role in crafting some settlement or compromise between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But Jefferson, Madison, and Washington explicitly warned against involving ourselves in foreign conflicts. ↗

— Ron Paul

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I would not take for granted that my personal life - because I knew better than anybody - that it was just a life. It was surprisingly an ordinary life. ↗

— Jane Pauley

#because #better #granted #i #just

There's no better friend to any merchant than a fair competitor. ↗

— James Cash Penney

#better #competitor #fair #friend #merchant

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#gift #i #i think #like #mouth

The rivalry is with ourself. I try to be better than is possible. I fight against myself, not against the other. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#better #fight #i #myself #other

I think it's better to attempt something and fail than it is to not even attempt it, so I'm glad that I've been prepared to put myself on the line there. ↗

— Ian Thorpe

#been #better #even #fail #glad

The better voice doesn't mean being a better singer. ↗

— Luciano Pavarotti

#better #better singer #mean #singer #voice

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#being #better #child #does #make

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#between #body #clash #else #hate

Finally, as the digestive canal is a complex system, a series of separate chemical laboratories, I cut the connections between them in order to investigate the course of phenomena in each particular laboratory; thus I resolved the digestive canal into several separate parts. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#canal #chemical #complex #complex system #connections