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Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
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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.
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Blessed are the weak who think that they are good because they have no claws.
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Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity leads to recession or stagnation then credit spreads widen out - even if a country can print its own currency and write its own cheques.
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Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed
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Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
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Born down in a dead man's town;
The first kick I took was when I hit the ground.
You end up like a dog that's been beat too much
'Til you spend half your life just covering up.Born In The U.S.A. (1984) Born in the USA -
Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
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Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
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Boundaries, and countries, if we don't have that we are all brothers and sisters, we can all have love and joy and compassion for each other: the world would be much more beautiful.
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