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• Put Your Spouse First: When the children are grown and move out of the home, who will be left but your spouse? Nurture that relationship first and foremost. It is your role, together, to be the best parents you can be and what better way to do that than by parenting together and teaching your children (by what you say and do) that the bond of marriage is stronger than any other earthly commitment

  Miriam

  Children, Moving, Teaching

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• Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Careers, Horizon, Quests

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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• I am like a chief. I like to taste the food. If it tastes bad, I don't serve it. I'm constantly monitoring what we do, and I'm always looking for better ways we can provide financial services, ways that would make me happy if I were a client.

  Charles R. Schwab

  Innovation, Way, Taste

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• Student loans are destroying the imagination of youth. If there’s a way of a society committing mass suicide, what better way than to take all the youngest, most energetic, creative, joyous people in your society and saddle them with, like $50,000 of debt so they have to be slaves? There goes your music. There goes your culture. There goes everything new that would pop out. And in a way, this is what’s happened to our society. We’re a society that has lost any ability to incorporate the interesting, creative and eccentric people.

  David Graeber

  Suicide, People, Imagination

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• There is indeed, perhaps, no better way to hold communion with the sea than sitting in the sun on the veranda of a fishermen's café

  Joseph Beach

  Beach, Sea, Sitting

  Joseph Warren Beach (1925). “Meek Americans: & Other European Trifles”

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• As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

  Tim Conway

  Sports, Kids, Thinking

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• It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.

  Richard Dawkins

  Son, Thinking, Ideas

  "Religion and Atheism". "Q&A" with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. April 9, 2012.

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• There never was a tonic that would cure more social ailments than a healthy, happy home. There never was a greater source of social stability than an affectionate and understanding family. There never was a better way of helping children to happiness than the close confidence of wise and loving and responsible parents.

  Richard L. Evans

  Wise, Children, Home

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• Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Meditation, Want

  Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. May 12, 2002.

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• Once you've had enough and you can't do it anymore, you consider the possibility that there might be a better way. That's when your head cracks open and God comes in.

  Marianne Williamson

  Cracks, Might, Way

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.12, Harper Collins

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• Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please; to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.

  Melvil Dewey

  Book, Inspiration, Giving

  "Melvil Dewey: His Enduring Presence in Librarianship".

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• ..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only because it is in most circumstances the most efficient method known but even more because it is the only method by which our activities can be adjusted to each other without coercive or arbitrary intervention of authority.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Individual Effort, Competition, Arbitrary

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• There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

  Patrick Swayze

  Beautiful, Dancing, Care

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• I have this hope that there is a better way. Higher-level tools that actually let you see the structure of the software more clearly will be of tremendous value.

  Guido van Rossum

  Tools, Levels, Way

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• We're also fairly stubborn, I think, fairly independent. We have our share of difficulties with our federal government, although I've tried to as I am here encourage a better way of discussing those problems.

  Dan Miller

  Independent, Thinking, Government

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• The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

  Peter Drucker

  Business, Real, Responsibility

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• We must drop the idea that change comes slowly. It does ordinarily - in part because we think it does. Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight. We must discard the idea that past routine, past ways of doing things, are probably the best ways. On the contrary, we must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

  Donald M. Nelson

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.

  Vijender Singh

  Achievement, Way, Timeless

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• A political organization is a transferable commodity. You could not find a better way of killing virtue than by packing it into one of these contraptions which some gang of thieves is sure to find useful.

  John Jay Chapman

  Organization, Political, Thieves

  John Jay Chapman (1900). “Practical Agitation”

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• I'm always willing to accept change, just as long as it isn't change for the sake of change. If that change will result in a better way of doing things, then I'm all for it.

  James Van Fleet

  Long, Progress, Sake

  James K. Van Fleet (1987). “Hidden Power: How to Unleash the Power of Your Subconscious Mind”, p.37, Penguin

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• The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together. ...Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. ...Families have supported oppression by separating people into small, isolated units, unable to join together to fight for common interests.

  Linda Gordon

  Fighting, People, Together

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• We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

  Alexis Ohanian

  Broken, Way, Realizing

  Alexis Ohanian (2013). “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed”, p.117, Hachette UK

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• There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

  Heinrich Mann

  Ideas, Way, Novel

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• If we could only make our hands move as actively as our tongues, what wonders we could accomplish! Almost everyone loves to hear his own voice. It is so easy, too! Yet if we could say less and do more for each other's good, not alone would every home be happier, but communities would be enriched thereby. Instead of criticism by speech, to show someone a better way to do a thing would be of much greater value.

  John Wanamaker

  Love, Moving, Home

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• Always remember, however, that there’s usually a simpler and better way to do something than the first way that pops into your head.

  Donald Knuth

  Firsts, Way, Remember

  Donald Ervin Knuth (1986). “The METAFONTbook”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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