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But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
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But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
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But, somewhere in there, I did have the thought that this really fits in with my thinking about what I wanted to do; with what has to be done by a writer in order to stay alive as a writer.
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But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24 -
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
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But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
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But, you know, we have these entrenched entities - and I'm talking about both Republicans and Democrats - who believe that when you're elected to office, you become some kind of member of the aristocracy, and that anyone who challenges you is attacking you and is unpatriotic. This is foolishness.
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Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
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Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
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By and large musicians are pretty lazy; they don't do a whole lot. They're usually very busy doing nothing.
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By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
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By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
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