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What, is he who walks prone upon his face better guided than he who walks upright on a straight path?
- Anonymous
Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.
- Jay-Z
His platform includes a prolife agenda, for instance, which "values the sanctity of every human soul," and also "believes in the greatness of the American family." The word family, on his glossy-but-down-home webpage in its hues of red, white and blue, is a code for you, where you also means right, deserving, genuine and better than those others, you know, the ones who aren't you.
- Lydia Millet
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
- CS Lewis
The only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it.
- Samuel Johnson
He bemoans our miseries with the tender pity of a Cowper, who, in warning us of life's grovelling pursuits and empty joys, seeks, by withdrawing us from their delusive dominion, to prepare us for "another and a better world." No.
- Samuel Johnson
I do not say with Cicero, that errors wear out by age, and that religion increases and grows better day by day. For the world (as will be shortly seen) labours as much as it can to shake off all knowledge of God.
- John Calvin
I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one.
- Barack Obama
I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some-some doctrine gets subscribed to me.
- George W. Bush
The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive.
- CS Lewis
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
- Fr. Richard Rohr
for Action and Contemplation puts it this way: "The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better." I
- Fr. Richard Rohr