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The Great Gatsby
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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet

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What is certain about the future is that even the best efforts to predict the conditions of future war will prove erroneous. What is important, however, is to not be so far off the mark that visions of the future run counter to the very nature of war and render American forces unable to adapt to unforeseen challenges.

– H. R. McMaster

When the vastness of God meets the restriction of our own humanity, words can’t hold it. The best we can do is find the moments that rhyme with this expansive heart of God.

– Greg Boyle

I’m best when I’m feral, when I don’t wash or shave or change my trousers for a couple of weeks.

– Greg Wise

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

– George Grosz

I’m from Louisiana, and that’s where I got my start, in Cajun music. There’s a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that’s the best way I could have been introduced to music.

– Hunter Hayes

Whereas economic man maximises, selects the best alternative from among all those available to him, his cousin, administrative man, satisfices, looks for a course of action that is satisfactory or ‘good enough’.

– Herbert A. Simon

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

– Gene Weingarten

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce’s son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

– Henry Reed

Winning ‘Best Vlogger of 2013’ from MTV is a really wonderful honor, and I wanted to thank all of you out there that used your fingers and clicked a button and made this happen, and to all of you that accidentally clicked my name and you were trying to click Jack and Finn, I’m sorry.

– Grace Helbig

A long time ago, in a country not so far away, I was eight years old, doing my best Darth Vader imitation.

– Hayden Christensen

The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, ‘We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.’

– Henry Rollins

The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

– Harold Taylor

Math – it’s not my best subject.

– Heather O’Rourke

Magazine stories, the best ones anyway, are generally a combination of three elements: access, narrative, and disclosure.

– Graydon Carter

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

– Gary Krist

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there’s not build up. I think that’s probably the best way to do it.

– Guy Fieri

You can’t win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn’t win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.

– Hank Stram

I am very excited – it’s a big opportunity for me to play for Manchester United, a new challenge for me. I will try to do my best.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don’t think that’s the best policy.

– Harold Prince

Now I know that Wal-Mart’s policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

– Hillary Clinton

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.

– Hugh Mackay

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

– Ian Hislop

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals; but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

– Heraclitus

When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.

– Gladys Knight

John Edwards makes us all proud to be Americans, and those of us from North Carolina are even more proud to claim him, for he represents the best that we can offer America at a time when strong, positive leadership is needed.

– Harvey Gantt

It’s another pleasure to score at Old Trafford, so I will try to do me best to do that.

– Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

– Hesiod

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

– George F. Kennan

I think to progress in major tournaments and to be at your best, you need a big squad, and you need to rotate it.

– Harry Kane

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

– Horatio Nelson

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