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  • Bill Lipinski Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.
    Bill Lipinski
    American politician (1937 - )
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  • Laurence J. Peter Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
    Laurence J. Peter
    Canadian educator and hierarchiologist (1919 - 1990)
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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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  • Brandon Routh But so long as we can keep this crew of fantastic people together and can continue to make real breakthrough films in this category, as well as characters that stay true to what we've done in this first film, I'd be more than happy to be a part of it.
    Brandon Routh
    American actor (1979 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ben Affleck But when I felt like I had something to prove? Then I got up early every morning and worked all day long. I didn't know if I had any more talent than anyone else directing, but I knew I could work hard at it, and so I did.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Brendan Coyle By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • E. F. Schumacher Call a thing immoral or ugly, soul-destroying or a degradation of man, a peril to the peace of the world or to the well-being of future generations; as long as you have not shown it to be ''uneconomic'' you have not really questioned its right to exist, grow, and prosper.
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  • Bertrand Russell Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Graham Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.
    Source: World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. II, The Issue of Cartels, p. 21
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Bill Kurtis Choose something you like to do. I know it's a cliche, and you've heard it over and over. But the reason is, you're going to have to work long and hard to achieve any success. You better like it or life is going to be terrible.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu Chronic means long term. Traumatic means associated with trauma. Encephalopathy means a bad brain.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Annie Jump Cannon Classifying the stars has helped materially in all studies of the structure of the universe.
    Annie Jump Cannon
    American astronomer (1863 - 1941)
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  • Bill Bryson Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Ben Bernanke Community development has a long history of innovation and learning from experience.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Barry Diller Companies like GE and Procter & Gamble have been in business for a long time. Over decades or a century you're bound to figure out a management structure that works.
    Barry Diller
    American businessman (1942 - )
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  • Louisa May Alcott Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich Considering the absence of legal coercion, the surprising thing is that men have for so long, and, on the whole, so reliably, adhered to what we might call the ''breadwinner ethic.''
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • John Donne Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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