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  • Bo Bice But whatever the Lord throws at me right now, I think I've been given more blessings than I ever deserved. If he wants to top it off with anything - boy, girl - I would love either of them.
    Bo Bice
    American singer and musician (1975 - )
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  • Arthur Herzog But whatever the POV, and the difficulty of forcing the action into a particular frame, stay within it.
    Arthur Herzog
    American novelist, non-fiction writer, and journalist (1927 - 2010)
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  • Barry Unsworth But whatever the ramifications, whatever turns the path takes, the beginning is always there, in a particular moment, a particular point of access.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Candice Bergen But when I disappeared, it sort of pissed me off, that guys get to go on being sexual until they're seventy or eighty, and we disappear at forty-five or fifty.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Russell Hoban But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.
    Russell Hoban
    American writer (1925 - 2011)
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bryan Ferry But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Ben Stein But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, 'Well, how did life begin' -- they're...they don't have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it's a BS answer. It's an answer that wouldn't make sense to a small child.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Alexander Pope But when mischief mortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Rape of the Lock (1712) Canto III, 125
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Barney Frank But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Edmund Burke But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
    Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Virginia Woolf But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world - a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Bryan Ferry But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • Bob Edwards But when you see personal artifacts relating to - by genealogy at least - a living human being, it was just more impressive to me than just about anything I've ever read about slavery before.
    Bob Edwards
    American broadcast journalist
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  • Benjamin Tucker But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Bodhidharma But while success and failure depend on conditions, the mind neither waxes nor wanes.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • John Maynard Keynes But whilst there may be intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of land, there are no intrinsic reasons for the scarcity of capital.
    The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (1936) Chap.XXIV
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Cassiodorus But who looks for serious conduct at the public shows? A Cato never goes to the circus. Anything said there by the people as they celebrate should be deemed no injury. It is a place that protects excesses. Patient acceptance of their chatter is a proven glory of princes themselves.
    Variae, Bk. 1, no. 27; p. 19
    Cassiodorus
    Roman statesman
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  • Bayard Taylor But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Thomas Hood But who would rush at a benighted man, and give him two black eyes for being blind?
    Thomas Hood
    English poet, author and humorist (1799 - 1845)
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