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The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.


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RON NELSON Our job is to convince guys that our way is the best way to cross the road. The tactics and training...
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BALTHUS All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
BIBLE St. Clair waggles his eyebrows at Josh, but the moment he sees that I've caught him, his expression ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS The best way to not let Yao Ming beat you is to not play against him 82 games.
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CHARLES BLACK Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO I don't think Josh had his best stuff tonight, but he pitched well. His defense betrayed him a littl...
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BEN OAK The best way to defeat the future is to have his present !
HESHAM NEBR More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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CHAD HEDRICK There's still some growing pains to go through and some things he needs to work on himself like we a...
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L. RON HUBBARD Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian.
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BIJOU HUNTER He was just a walking skeleton. That's the best way to describe him.
MARK CLIFFORD The best way to stay safe is, let them think your insane.
ANTHONY LICCIONE The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN I think that is a horrible way to decide the game. I'm not saying he didn't hold him, but he easily ...
BOB STRICKLER Hold on to your past, but only hold on to the things most precious to you. Let go of those that aren...
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JILLIAN MICHAELS It is rude to silence a fool, and cruelty to let him go on.
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ROBERT TERWILLIGER The best way to say "I LOVE YOU" is to forgive and let go.
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CHRIS WIDGER To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.
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JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined
JOSH BILLINGS Knowledge is like money: the more one gets, the more one craves.
JOSH BILLINGS Advice is like castor oil, easy enough to give but dreadful uneasy to take.
JOSH BILLINGS Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy a...
JOSH BILLINGS Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to
JOSH BILLINGS The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way
JOSH BILLINGS Life is a grindstone, and whether it grinds a man down or polishes him up depends on the stuff he's ...
JOSH BILLINGS As a general thing, when a woman wears the pants in a family, she has a good right to them.
JOSH BILLINGS Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well
JOSH BILLINGS Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
JOSH BILLINGS The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.
JOSH BILLINGS Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.
JOSH BILLINGS the squeeky wheel gets the grease.
JOSH BILLINGS Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
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