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Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
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Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
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Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
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Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors.
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Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
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Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
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Boxing distills and illuminates the essence of an athlete. There's nowhere to hide. Boxers live and perform at the extremes. They provide us with answers about a given contest, but more important, they ask us fundamental questions about human narratives. What does this person really stand for? How far will he go to defend it?
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Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
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BP had a lease to drill. They did not have a lease to pollute the Gulf of Mexico. They did not have a lease to blow oil into the environment. They did not have a lease to disperse the oil and try to hide the body. They don't have a lease to clean up.
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