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  • Ezra Taft Benson Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.
    Ezra Taft Benson
    American farmer, government official, and religious leader (1985 - 1994)
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  • Billy Sunday Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.
    Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ (1917)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Nicholson Baker Until a friend or relative has applied a particular proverb to your own life, or until you've watched him apply the proverb to his own life, it has no power to sway you.
    Nicholson Baker
    American novelist and essayist (1957 - )
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  • Jim Carrey Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
    Jim Carrey
    Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist and screenwriter (1962 - )
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  • Albert Schweitzer Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Jean Anouilh Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • Bernard Bailyn Up and down the the still sparsely settled coast of British North America, groups of men-intellectuals and farmers, scholars and merchants, the learned and the ignorant-gathered for the purpose of constructing enlightened governments.
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution Ch. VI, THE CONTAGION OF LIBERTY, p. 231
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Bradley Denton Upon finding his quarry, he would learn what he could, make an evaluation, and act accordingly. Then he would tell his superiors whatever they wanted to hear, just as he always had.
    Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede (1991)
    Bradley Denton
    American science fiction author (1958 - )
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  • Brad Feld Usually, the first three months post acquisition are up and down. The acquirer and the acquiree are trying to figure out how to interact. The founders of the acquiree are usually tired from the deal process and adjusting to their new reality.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Edward Dahlberg Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Brigitte Bardot Vadim was both my teacher and my husband. I placed myself entirely in his hands.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • Bhagavad Gita Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • E. M. Forster Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Virtue, without talent, is a coat of mail without a sword; it may indeed defend the wearer, but will not enable him to protect his friend.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Beeban Kidron Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Walters Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Barbara Demick Walking down the street with a portrait of the Dalai Lama will get one immediately arrested in most parts of China. Tiny medallions are routinely confiscated and destroyed.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • William Blake Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Napoleon Hill War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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