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Pampered vanity is a better thing perhaps than starved pride. ↗

— Joanna Baillie

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It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

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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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Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing. ↗

— James Darren

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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 have got better things to do in working with my athletes who I feel are going to be involved in 2012. ↗

— Linford Christie

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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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