Some of the best teammates I have ever had are the furthest thing from Christian ," Jennings said.

Mather believed that Biblia Americana was the best thing he had ever written, believing it to be his masterwork ( Hovey 533 ).

I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

Michael Wreen argued that “ the principal thing that distinguishes euthanasia from intentional killing simpliciter is the agent's motive: it must be a good motive insofar as the good of the person killed is concerned ”, a view mirrored by Heather Draper, who also spoke to the importance of motive, arguing that " the motive forms a crucial part of arguments for euthanasia, because it must be in the best interests of the person on the receiving end.

Banks would later describe the save as the thing he would remain best known for.

It was very well received ; Gropius, in fact, called it " the best thing done in master class ".

" I told ya the New York Dolls were the real thing ," he wrote, describing the album as " perhaps the best example of raw, thumb-your-nose-at-the-world, punk rock since the Rolling Stones ' Exile on Main Street.

We decided that putting him on that list was the best thing to do.

Critics praised Curry's performance as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, Roger Ebert called him " the best thing in the movie, maybe because he seems to be having the most fun.

All the noble savage's wars with his fellow-savages ( and he takes no pleasure in anything else ) are wars of extermination – which is the best thing I know of him, and the most comfortable to my mind when I look at him.

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According to Rousseau, we should even doubt that reason, language and politics are a good thing, as opposed to being simply the best option given the particular course of events that lead to today.

: The Group was the best thing professionally that ever happened to me.

Student James Dean, in a letter home to his parents, writes that Actors Studio was " the greatest school of the theater the best thing that can happen to an actor ".

In later interviews, Kazan explained some of the early events that made him decide to become a friendly witness, most notably in relation to the Group Theater, which he called his first " family ," and the " best thing professionally " that ever happened to him:

This is the best thing I have had.

Flinders had concluded that the Terra Australis as hypothesized by Aristotle and Ptolemy did not exist, so he wanted the name applied to what he saw as the next best thing: " Australia ".

It was released to shock and outrage in some circles and great acclaim in others ; Time Out called it " funny, unflinchingly abrasive, authentic and inventive ", and The Sunday Times called Welsh " the best thing that has happened to British writing for decades ".

Sorge used the examples of Julius Caesar and Ferdinand Magellan using brutal methods to crush mutinies to argue that great leaders throughout history had always used extreme violence to maintain discipline, and through he emphasized that a good officer should never had to be confronted with the threat of mutiny, but if such a threat did emerge, the best thing that could be done was to follow Hitler ’ s example in 1934, and have all the mutineers ’ summarily executed.

Raeder took the view that because of the increasing number of naval " incidents " in the second half of 1941 between U-boats and US ships guarding convoys to Britain, that the best thing to do was to declare war on America in order to end all of the restrictions on fighting the U. S. Navy.

Silenus shared with the king a pessimistic philosophy: That the best thing for a man is not to be born, and if already born, to die as soon as possible.

Silenus appears in the writings of Arthur Schopenhauer, who endorsed his most famous dictum that " the best thing for a man is not to be born ".

* Cleobulus of Lindos: " Moderation is the best thing.

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The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Washington never had a chance to work for an extended stretch at the occupation he loved best, plantation management.

The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.

Ironically no president we have had would have regretted more than President Eisenhower the possibility to which his own words, in the press conference held at the beginning of August, testified: that unable as he was himself to say his running was best for the country, unconsciously he had placed his party before his nation.

The best gifts of the novelist will be wasted on the reader who is insulated against any surprises the novelist may have in store for him.

The Rooseveltian America was a haven of liberalism and progress and seemed to him to constitute the last best hope for civilization.

Here Wright gave a slight sigh of weariness, and continued, `` It means more long years lived across the social grain of the life of our people, making shift to live in the face of popular disrespect and misunderstanding as I best can for myself and those dependent upon me ''.

A truism is that the time to prepare for the worst is when times are best.

In `` My Song's Young Virgin Date '', for example, Thompson wrote: `` Yea, she that had my song's young virgin date Not now, alas, that noble singular she, I nobler hold, though marred from her once state, Than others in their best integrity.

Obviously the commander-in-chief had confidence that Morgan would furnish him good intelligence too, for on the 23rd of May, he told Morgan that the British were prepared to move, perhaps in the night, and asked Morgan to have two of his best horses ready to dispatch to General Smallwood with the intelligence obtained.

Affirmatively Baker worked on the premise that `` young men spontaneously prefer to be decent, and that opportunities for wholesome recreation are the best possible cure for irregularities in conduct which arise from idleness and the baser temptations ''.

Sturley wrote to Quiney that Sir Edward `` gave his allowance and liking thereof, and affied unto us his best endeavour, so that his rights be preserved '', and that `` Sir Edward saith we shall not be at any fault for money for prosecuting the cause, for himself will procure it and lay it down for us for the time ''.

they merely do their best to make it real for others ''.

It was, the brief writers decided, `` man's best hope for a peaceful and law abiding world ''.

And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.

Civil Defense has far to go and many problems to solve, but is it not in the best spirit of our pioneer tradition to be not only willing, but prepared to care for our own families and help our neighbors in any disaster -- storm, flood, accident or even war??

Yet although the Kennedy Administration, and the Eisenhower Administration before it, have both declared themselves solidly for repeal of the Connally amendment, as contrary to our best interests, no action has yet been taken.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.