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  • Bob Diamond Banks hold deposits and savings entrusted to them by individuals, by businesses, by governments and by central banks. They put that money to work, helping people to buy homes, for example, or lending to businesses to invest in expansion.
    Bob Diamond
    Anglo-American banker (1951 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Banks will have to win the confidence of their customers through fair dealing, making good loans, and remaining financially healthy.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
    The Green Fields of the Mind, Yale Alumni Magazine, November 1977
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Bill James Baseball does become slow sometimes. It's totally unnecessary. The - you can play baseball fast. You can play it slow, and for some reason, we have chosen to play it slow, you know, which is unfortunate, but nothing you can do about.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
    Sports Illustrated, 17 April 1989
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Bob Uecker Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Yogi Berra Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Barry Ritholtz Based on a lifetime of observations and a few decades in the markets, I understand that societies, beliefs and fashions all move in long arcs of time. We call these arcs several things: cycles, periods, eras.
    Barry Ritholtz
    American author and newspaper columnist
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  • Bjorn Borg Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • Woody Allen Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bernadette Devlin Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.
    Bernadette Devlin
    Irish civil rights activist (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Basically, I was pretty ostracized in my hometown. Me and a few other guys were the town freaks- and there were many occasions when we were dodging getting beaten up ourselves.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Casey Kasem Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.
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  • Bobby Flay Basically, there are two things we know: Everybody has less time, and the general public is demanding better food - better in terms of quality and better in terms of flavor.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor Bathed in the tenderest purple of distance, Tinted and shadowed by pencils of air, Thy battlements hang o'er the slopes and the forests, Seats of the gods in the limitless ether, Looming sublimely aloft and afar.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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