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Betterment Quotes (page 72)

Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Just 'cause something makes you feel better than anything..."
Just 'cause something makes you feel better than anything else, that don't mean it's good for you. Kurt Vonnegut
I do plan on saving one or two things to him when we're allowed an hour for goodbyes. To let him know how essential he's been to me all these years. How better my life has been for knowing him." -Katniss Everdeen Suzanne Collins
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else... Henry Hazlitt
You try to make the world a better place and what does it get you? I mean, Christ, how the hell does one man stand a chance against four billion assholes? Daniel Clowes
You can always push people around, but it's not a good idea. Better to let them volunteer information for reasons of their own. You get more that way. Sue Grafton
I won't let you spoil my war for me. Destroys the weak, does it? Well, what does peace do for'em, huh? War feeds its people better. Bertolt Brecht
George Eliot quote: "People are almost always better than their neighbors think..."
People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are. George Eliot
They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. David Herbert Lawrence
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Everything is going to be unimaginably worse and is never..."
Everything is going to be unimaginably worse and is never going to get any better. Kurt Vonnegut
It is not the teacher's proper task to be constantly testingand checking the understanding of the learner. That's the learner's task, andonly the learner can do it. The teacher's job is to answer questions whenlearners ask them, or to try to help learners understand better when they askfor that help. John Holt
Joyce Maynard quote: "Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a..."
Daughters," he told her as they dug. "Nothing better than a good daughter. Joyce Maynard
I love to think. I once considered taking drugs as an attempt to better understand an altered state of mind; however, I decided not to. I didn't want to chance ruining the machine. Richard P. Feynman
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in..."
To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's. Fyodor Dostoevsky
John Irving quote: "Mum must have liked younger men; she'd certainly liked me..."
Mum must have liked younger men; she'd certainly liked me better when I was younger. In One Person. John Irving
Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better. Maya Angelou

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