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Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth century Botswana's gross domestic product per capita grew faster than that of any other country on the planet. The once-labeled 'Third World' is edging its way into the 'First World.'

Better to inflict pain on myself than to let other people do it.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Between 2013 and 2015, the wealthiest 14 people saw their wealth increase by $157 billion. This is their wealth increase, got it? Not what they are worth. Increase. That $157 billion is more wealth than is owned by the bottom 40 percent of the American people. One family, the Walton family, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent.

Better to be ordinary people in a superior country than to be a president in a disreputable country.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.

Between children and parents there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

Be true to yourself- and keep things simple. People complicate things

Better he learns now that if you mess with people, you might get messed with in return.

Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done

Better to keep quiet and let people think you're an idiot than speak up and confirm it.

Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense.

Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.

Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity.

Between the government which does evil and the people who accept it - there is a certain shameful solidarity.

Between two throw-ins in a soccer game, right behind my back, three thousand people had been put to death.

Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

Beware of Methodologies. They are a great way to bring everyone up to a dismal, but passable, level of performance, but at the same time, they are aggravating to more talented people who chafe at the restrictions that are placed on them.

Between New York and LA, there's 200 million people that aren't hip, and they don't want to be hip.

Beware of people who constantly assert their integrity and honor. People of character don't have to point it out.

Beware of people whose halos are on too tight.

Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.

Beware of stupid people who are motivated and energetic.

Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

Beware the advice of successful people; they do not seek company.

Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair, needless suffering, lost opportunities for millions upon millions of people.

Between people who truly care and love each other, there are times where you don't need to say anything at all. Those emotions that are hard to express with words. Things like "I love you" and "Thank you", you don't really need to say those words.

Between the monster and the fool there are many people who walk the middle path with a dog at their heels, their lives enriched by giving the dog a dog's life.

Between the postwar fifties - domesticity, people happy to be alive after the Second World War, wanting to build a home, make a family, make a nest. Women were pushed back into the home after having been active in the Second World War. It was a big Doris Day moment for women, which didn't suit all women.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

Beware of people who call you 'Doc.' They rarely pay their bills.

Beware of people who fall at your feet. They may be reaching for the corner of the rug.

Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

Beware the People weeping When they bare the iron hand.

Between the disillusionment that people feel about politics-as-usual, assaults on the right to vote, and the constant feelings of pressure that Americans suffer in our overworked, overstressed economy, too many people have checked out of the political process.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

Between Twitter and Facebook I have nearly 70,000 followers, so my colleagues receive the responses. They show some of them to me, and I am always interested to read what people have to say. I filter all the information that reaches me, from letters in the newspaper, to conversations. There are many influences that shape my decisions, and often people on Twitter are thinking along the same lines as I do on an issue.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

Beware At war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interest Than of any other disease

Beware how you contradict prejudices, even knowing them to be such, for the generality of people are much more tenacious of their prejudices than of anything belonging to them.

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

Beware the autumn people

Be you and I think people will recognize the special things about yourself. Just be you, and be you to the fullest.

Be yourself and the right people will love you.

Be yourself, fill your life with good people, and don't get a big head. It can all be gone tomorrow.

Be who you are. Otherwise, you end up committing suicide. You end up marrying people when you shouldn't be marrying them and having terrible, secret lives.