Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 10234.
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Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
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Birth and death are so closely related that one could not destroy either without destroying the other at the same time. It is extinction that makes creation possible.
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Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.
Assata: An Autobiography (1987) -
Black women sharing close ties with each other, politically or emotionally, are not the enemies of Black men.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 47 -
Blackpool's illuminations are nothing if not splendid, and they are not splendid.
Notes from a Small Island -
Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
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Blessedness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself; neither do we rejoice therein, because we control our lusts, but contrariwise, because we rejoice therein, we are able to control our lusts.
Ethics -
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
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Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
Romeo and Juliet (1595) -
Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
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Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
The Duty of Owning Books (1859) -
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
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Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
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Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
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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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