We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

— Rachel Cohn

There will always be someone better looking; better off; smarter; richer; thinner; taller; shorter; have more friends than you; a better car and a better house.You might not have what they have, but when you look in the mirror, that's you!And that's something that they don't have and will never have!

— Anthony T. Hincks

Would the world be better off without people or would people be better off without money?

— Anthony T. Hincks

If the surprise outcome of the recent UK referendum - on whether to leave or remain in the European Union - teaches us anything, it is that supposedly worthy displays of democracy in action can actually do more harm than good. Witness a nation now more divided; an intergenerational schism in the making; both a governing and opposition party torn to shreds from the inside; infinitely more complex issues raised than satisfactory solutions provided. It begs the question 'Was it really all worth it' ?

— Alex Morritt
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With time we learn that the things we're better off without have the ability to lead us somewhere better than we were before.

— Andrew Kendall

Dad?' Jesus asked.'Yes, son,' God said.'Why do people have sins?' Jesus asked.'It's to remind them that they're human,' God replied.'But, wouldn't they be better off just being perfect?' Jesus now asked.God smiled, 'Then they wouldn't learn anything,' he said.

— Anthony T. Hincks