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Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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Although all the good arts serve to draw man's mind away from vices and lead it toward better things, this function can be more fully performed by this art, which also provides extraordinary intellectual pleasure. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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I can think of a lot better things to do with my hands than to cut them up on the rim of a drum. ↗

— Buddy Rich

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I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

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It is because nations tend towards stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all. ↗

— George Gissing

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No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things. ↗

— Channing Pollock

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I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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Being a white South African, I enjoyed the better things that that country gave to a small percentage of its population. ↗

— Dave Matthews

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Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it. ↗

— LL Cool J

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I honestly have no interest in celebrity whatsoever. If anything, I always cringe at it because it takes away from what I am, which is an actor who wants to be better and do better things. ↗

— Jude Law

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