We all think better-off people should share with others but that's not something we are inclined to do when we are better off.
After a heated chess match, you are generally no better off now that you've won.
It is a classic prisoner's dilemma: everyone would be better off if everyone hung back, but each individual does better for himself by pushing forward.
Screwdriver-does it make sense to be in this drawer? would it be better off in the toolbox or garage?
Someone whose ankle joint is very stable is better off wearing flat shoes, as long as they are supportive.
In societies where rich men are much richer than poor men, women (and their children) are better off sharing the few wealthy men;
the shit. In fact, you're the polar opposite. Use this when your boyfriend cheats on you. And remember to kick him in the balls and remind him that he's better off sucking dicks.
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the prince goes off with the wrong princess. Or the spell wears off and two lovers realize they are better off as... Well , whatever they are. 童話故事令人遺憾的是，它會讓一個女孩失望。在現實中，王子帶着錯誤的公主離開。或者當咒語消失，相愛的兩人會發現…維持現狀才是良策。
Your body is better off without any chemicals.
Cats may be better off fed inexpensive fresh fish than cat food, and dogs' fresh meat.
"The purpose of this book is to say you're always better off doing something, " he says. "When people are in trouble, action is better than inaction."Is
If you speak three or more languages fluently, will you be three or more times better off?
Today, in China, shops are well stocked with articles people want to buy and people are better off than before in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation.
At least a dozen men, some of them little better off than he was, explained to him that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond.
You'll be much better off than Fifth Household's Hsi-erh.
Better bean counting would make it easier to ascertain what might be better off in private hands.
So you are better off getting someone quick and you develop him with experience.
A village in Tanzania with poor schooling may be better off getting a road than a teacher, critics say.
He must have wondered if Goldman would have been better off from a public-relations point of view by incurring giant losses, like Citigroup.
In some of these countries, many of those who consume enough to ensure they do not count as "poor" are in fact only a bit better off than those who do.
If senders do not add stamps, you are no worse off for checking; you just aren't better off, either.
If that is the lesson regulators draw from the debacle of the summer sell-off, both sides will be better off.
Mark Latham also said Ms Gillard would have been better off giving Mr Rudd the foreign affairs portfolio to prevent him from being a loose cannon in Brisbane.
You're much better off with human translators any day.
Helping diverse caring relationships is realistic, not radical and will make us all better off.
Not one of these studies is saying that kids are "better off" being in lesbian homes than in straight ones, or even that lesbians are "better" parents than straight ones.
Unity : We are better off wrong together than right apart.
The standard economic definition of efficiency is pareto optimality: when no one can be made better off without making someone else worse off.
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be better off in hell."
Even if over the long term you'd be better off if you were able to continue buying bargains.
If you're wondering how to lose weight, you're better off being kept in the dark.
We’d be better off without him at the party.
So I was selling them shit. But the way I looked at it, their money was better off in my pocket. I knew how to spend it better.
Instead, Zarqawi died in the free and democratic Iraq that he fought so hard to prevent, and the world is better off because this violent man will never kill again.
While that may be too sunny (and novelistic) a conclusion, at least we're better off than poor Nelly Weeton, with more to hope for than Jane Eyre.
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