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“There’s a cockeyed yellow poodle to the north of Conga Pooch; There’s a little hot cross bun that’s turning green; There’s a double-jointed woman doing tricks in Chu-Chin-Chow, And you’re a better man than I am, Gunga Din”. –Billy Bennett

“When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her”. –Sacha Guitry

“To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art”. –Asger Jorn

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

“Those whom you fight passionately often turn out to be your best friends”. –Ferdinand Marcos

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

“Human effort may manage at its best to transform a starving proletariat into a well-fed bourgeoisie; but then a worse proletariat emerges from the bowels of society. Jesus was right, there will always be the poor among us. Which proves that this humanity is the greatest error that God ever committed”. –Eça de Queiroz

“We do not have time to wait for the enlightenment of our neighbors so that we can work together toward the development of Asia. It is better for us to leave the ranks of Asian nations and cast our lot with civilized nations of the West… We should deal with them exactly as Westerners do”. –Fukuzawa Yukichi

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”. –Peter Drucker

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

“But I shall let the little I have learnt go forth into the day in order that someone better than I may guess the truth, and in his work may prove and rebuke my error”. –Albrecht Dürer

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well”. –William Shakespeare

“The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency”. –Vladimir Lenin

“It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don’t want and get it”. –Eugene Debs

“The government is best which makes itself unnecessary”. –Wilhelm von Humboldt

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home”. –James A. Michener

“Increasingly, stars are recruited from the ranks of professional models, with the result that today’s starlets are better dressed and better groomed than ever before, though it is doubtful if they are better actresses”. –Rita Hayworth

“Every valuable human being must be a radical and a rebel; for what he must aim at is to make things better than they are”. –Niels Bohr

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing”. –George S. Patton

“It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees”. –Emiliano Zapata