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" Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up. "

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" I used to do my best thinking while staring out airplane windows. The seat-back video system put a stop to that. Now I sit and watch old' Friends' and 'Everybody Loves Raymond' episodes. Walking is good, but here again, technology has interfered. I like to listen to iTunes while I walk home. I guess I don't think anymore. "

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" God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don't have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I'm sure he didn't call everybody jerks. "

" In 1985, I was living with my sister in Virginia, and since I was still in high school, I worked at McDonald's to save money to get an abortion. It sounds really terrible, but it was the best decision I ever made. It was the first time I took responsibility for my actions. I messed up, had sex without contraception, and got pregnant at 15. "

" I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. "

" You don't fight racism with racism, the best way to fight racism is with solidarity. "

" I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. "

" The best way to bring people in and have them empathize with others is through storytelling. "

" I believe in soulmates, yes, but I believe you also have to work at love. I happen to believe your soulmate doesn't have to be your partner - your soulmate could be your best friend, your sibling, it doesn't have to be the person you marry. "

" Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest. "

" The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it. "

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" I have always tried my best to do what I thought was the right thing at the time. "

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" Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated. "

" I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best. "

" I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. "

" I've only had two rules: Do all you can and do it the best you can. It's the only way you ever get that feeling of accomplishing something. "

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" The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction. "

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" The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything. "

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" To wake up to the sound of my son saying 'Mama, mama!' It's the best sound ever. "

" I think the best solution to this challenge, and I accept there is a challenge with homophobic bullying, is to make sure we get rid of the bullying rather than feeling we have to take kids out of our schools and teach then somewhere else. That would be the best approach. "

" I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent. "

" I suppose women are attracted to the bad-boy image sometimes because it's fun to have an adventure. It's like eating junk food... it's fun at the time, but ultimately not the best choice. "

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" Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions. "

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" That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love. "

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