Sentence examples for deed better from inspiring English sources

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As Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi put it last week: "There is no deed better than jihad, so to arms, to arms, soldiers of the Islamic state, fight, fight".

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"Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today," Donald Ray Pollock wrote here.

Woodrell writes about violence and dark deeds better than almost anyone in America today, in compact, musical prose that doesn't dwell on visceral detail.

In this sense, Royce writes, "The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been had all else remained the same, but had that deed of treason not been done at all" (Royce 2001 [1913], 180).

The good news is that regardless of situation and circumstance, we all have the capacity to be difference makers and to demonstrate, in word and deed, s better way forward.

An overflowing roomful of university presidents, government and professional society executives, and longtime advocates of greater diversity told the board that words are good but deeds are better.

Because sentimentalism had ruled my charitable choices up to that point, effective altruism was like a beam of clarity, and it told me not that I had been doing everything wrong, but that I could make my good deeds even better by shifting my perspective on empathy, optimism, and giving.

It is, of course, harsh to criticise a striker for failing to score when he hardly missed a presentable chance, but Welbeck worked hard enough here and had enough sight of goal to have repaid Van Gaal in deed on a better day.

Barrett said the name for the effort came from a message left on his pillow on a hotel room in Kuala Lumpur that read, "A small deed done is better than a great deed planned".

At the end of his life, the poet wrote in a letter: "'If I should die,' said I to myself, 'I have left no immortal work behind me.'" Hence, the epitaph's depressing metaphor, which Keats borrowed from the depressingly titled seventeenth-century play, "Philaster, or Love Lies-a-Bleeding:" "All your better deeds / Shall be in water writ".

"Truth hath better deeds than words to grace it".

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