“I thought it was great. The best one. Better than The Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars.”

— Justin Trudeau

Eleven-year-old Justin Trudeau, after attending a screening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqjQ6gqgi0w of Return of the Jedi with his father, Pierre Trudeau, in 1983
Context: before leading Liberals

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23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau 1971

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Justine Frischmann (1969) English musician

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“…it is better to go on striking in the same direction than to move one's forces this way and that.”

Carl von Clausewitz book On War

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“Asimov: Well, I liked Star Wars. I thought Battlestar Galactica was such a close imitation of Star Wars, emphasizing the less attractive portions, that I was a little impatient with it.”

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“Andrew Yarranton, Gentlemen was the founder of English political economy, the first man in England who saw and said that peace was better than war, that trade was better than plunder, that honest industry was better than martial greatness, and that the best occupation of a government was to secure prosperity at home, and let other nations alone.”

Andrew Yarranton (1619–1684) English civil engineer

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“The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less.”

Karen Joy Fowler book We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

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“What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Smith.”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Vol. II, Ch. X, p. 202.
(Buch II) (1893)

“Gambling was safer than war. More fun, too. Best of all, it gave him better odds.”

Larry Niven (1938) American writer

Source: Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975), There Is a Tide (p. 208)

“I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world.”

Martin Amis (1949) Welsh novelist

Playboy interview (2003)
Context: I think it's a very confused culture. On the one hand, no one is better than anyone else; no one is prettier. On the other hand, everyone is completely obsessed by their looks and by how they strike the world. On the one hand, we're all equal; on the other hand, everyone's a superstar. It's all very irrational, like all ideology.

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1987
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