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  • Groucho Marx Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • James B. Conant Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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  • Assata Shakur Being in Cuba has allowed me to live in a society that is not at war with itself. There is a sense of community. It's a given in Cuba that, if you fall down, the person next to you is going to help you get up.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being is both presence and absence. God had to conceal His presence in order to bring the world into being. He had to make His absence possible in order to make room for the world's presence. Coming into being brought along denial and defiance, absence, oblivion and resistance.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Bret Harte Beneath this tree lies the body of John Oakhurst, who struck a streak of bad luck on the 23rd of November, 1850, and handed in his checks on the 7th December, 1850.
    The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1869)
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Bob Kane Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • James G. Huneker Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
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  • Erica Jong Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Caroll Spinney Big Bird went through his very human kind of struggles as a child. No other children's character has been that complete and detailed.
    Caroll Spinney
    American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker (1933 - 2019)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Bills of rights give assurance to the individual of the preservation of his liberty. They do not define the liberty they promise.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Blame it on the lies that killed us
    Blame it on the truth that ran us down
    You can blame it all on me, Terry
    It don't matter to me now.
    Born To Run (1975) Backstreets
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Amy Carmichael Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
    Amy Carmichael
    Missionary in India (1867 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Blessed is that man who has found his work.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • John Burroughs Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Boris Spassky Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.
    Boris Spassky
    Russian chess grandmaster (1937 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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