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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, like a lot of people who are creative, need to step away. I can't have stuff to write about if I don't have a life. If I talk to people, hang out with my friends and hang out with my husband, I feel like I have better things to bring to the table. ↗

— Carrie Underwood

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You're confronted with the quandary: do I grind things to a halt? Ideally you would, but I have better things to do than educate people. ↗

— Wentworth Miller

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By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you've blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

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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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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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Endure the present, and watch for better things. ↗

— Virgil

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It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt. ↗