Taking either memantine or donepezil alone was better than nothing at all, but taking them together offered no additional benefit.

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Jerry Amato says a smaller Mardi Gras is better than nothing at all, but Chucky Stevens says the city should have reconsidered hosting the country's biggest block party.

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Charitable organizations embrace incentives for taxpayers to make donations: while a dollar today is generally better than a dollar tomorrow, even a dollar tomorrow is better than nothing at all.

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Thomas Jefferson once wrote that the man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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He liked nothing better than to lollygag all day at his gentlemen's club and read newspapers in his leather chair.

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Today, financial markets seem to think it's better to have a short-term stopgap than nothing at all.

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And because the alternative is literally nothing at all, there is plenty of room to offer something that is infinitely better than that and will improve from there.

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