Quotes with english-only

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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Bill Walton Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Dan McKinnon Be aware that a halo has to fall only a few inches to be a noose.
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  • Swami Ramdas Be patient. The path of self-discipline that leads to God-realization is not an easy path: obstacles and sufferings are on the path; the latter you must bear, and the former overcome - all by His help. His help comes only through concentration. Repetition of God's name helps concentration.
    Swami Ramdas
    Indian saint, philosopher, philanthropist and pilgrim (1884 - 1963)
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  • Adolf Loos Be truthful, nature only sides with truth.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Sappho Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
    Sappho
    Greek poet (630 - 570)
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  • Kin Hubbard Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Alan Moore Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
    Alan Moore
    English writer (1953 - )
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  • Brandon Lee Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Bobbie Ann Mason Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.
    Bobbie Ann Mason
    American novelist and short story writer
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  • Caitlin Doughty Because we've never encountered a decomposing body, we can only assume they are out to get us. It is no wonder there is a cultural fascination with zombies.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, before everything else, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • James B. Conant Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Fanny Brice Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bill Burr Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
    Bill Burr
    American stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster (1968 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Jonathan Franzen Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!
    De correcties 324
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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