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People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living. ↗

— Dashiell Hammett

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If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

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Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are. ↗

— Julius Charles Hare

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Remember, this was a world that was still ethnically separated. I was thirteen and ignorant of the social situation in America, but I felt these records were better than what my own culture was turning out. ↗

— Roy Harper

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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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I have walked around the same streets so many times, and then seen a place that had been hidden to me. I now know the sites in a way that makes me think I could have made better use of the connections between place and snowball. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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No agency is better than its account executives. ↗

— Samuel Goldwyn

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Motivation aside, if people get better at these life skills, everyone benefits: The brain doesn't distinguish between being a more empathic manager and a more empathic father. ↗

— Daniel Goleman

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