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  • George Bernard Shaw Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Congreve Blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, and though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bono Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Brad Garrett Broadway was without doubt the hardest I ever worked in my life and the highest highs I've ever had as an actor. The unadulterated fear was on a level that was hard to explain.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Jane Austen Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Bruce McCulloch But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Archibald Alexander But however long you may have continued in rebellion, and how ever black and long the catalog of your sins, yet if you will now turn to God by a sincere repentance, and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, you shall not be cast out.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Beatrice Dalle But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.
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  • Junot Diaz But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.
    Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 209
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Beck But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
    Q magazine, April 2000
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • George Orwell But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Algernon H. Blackwood But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm.
    Algernon H. Blackwood
    English broadcasting narrator, journalist and writer (1869 - 1951)
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  • Albert Einstein But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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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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  • 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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  • Buddy Rich But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Campbell Brown By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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