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  2. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    It goes without saying; It is a small world; It is all grist to the mill; It is an ill wind (that blows no one any good) It is best to be on the safe side; It is better to be smarter than you appear than to appear smarter than you are; It is better to give than to receive; It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all

  3. Leaving the world a better place - Wikipedia

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    This ethic was articulated by Bessie Anderson Stanley in 1911 (in a quote often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson): "To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded."

  4. Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to ...

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    "Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door" is a metaphor about the power of innovation. It originated, in a somewhat different form, with Ralph Waldo Emerson . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The epigram as known today, which specifies "mousetrap", probably also originated with Emerson, although the evidence for this is indirect.

  5. 10 Genius Phrases To Use Instead of 'I'm Busy,' According to ...

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    The One Time It's Best To Say "I'm Busy" All of the above responses are great swaps for "I'm busy," but Dr. Cooper says there's one time when the phrase is the best one to go with.

  6. 13 Ways the World Got Better in 2023 - AOL

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    Wiley, another academic publisher, surveyed more than 600 researchers, and found that in 2023, 75% had published open access papers in the past three years, compared to just 44% of respondents in ...

  7. Best of all possible worlds - Wikipedia

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    According to this tradition, "evil, though real, is not a 'thing', but rather a direction away from the goodness of the One"; [11] evil is the absence of good, and accordingly, it is technically wrong to say that God created evil, properly speaking. Rather, he created a world which was imperfectly good.

  8. Is the glass half empty or half full? - Wikipedia

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    To illustrate this figuratively: Is this glass half empty or half full? "Is the glass half empty or half full?", and other similar expressions such as the adjectives glass-half-full or glass-half-empty, are idioms which contrast an optimistic and pessimistic outlook on a specific situation or on the world at large. [1] "

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