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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich on best

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles on best

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Peter Tosh on best

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.
Tab Hunter on best

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
Michelangelo on best

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.
David Ogilvy on best

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
Alexis de Tocqueville on best

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
Tony Snow on best

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.
Jean-Paul Sartre on best

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.
William Butler Yeats on best

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot on best

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot on best

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
George Eliot on best

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.
George Eliot on best

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George Eliot on best

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.
Rip Torn on best

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.
Chuck Palahniuk on best

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
Euripides on best

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.
Morihei Ueshiba on best