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  • Donald Culross Peattie Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebullience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right.
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  • Camille Paglia Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Louis de Bernieres Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • John Keats Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • John Keats Beauty is truth, truth is all ye know on earth, and all Ye need to know.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Immermann Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
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  • Candice Bergen Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
    Candice Bergen
    American actress (1946 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
    Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Beth Ditto Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Camilla Belle Because I was able to submerge myself into the character, I didn't have to go back and forth. You don't have to work hard to bring emotions. It all just comes naturally, you're there living it.
    Camilla Belle
    Brazilian-American actress, director and producer (1986 - )
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  • Anita Hill Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs Because I've lived in one room my entire life, working at the same table that you use to pay bills at and eat at. It's going to be nice to have actual space.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Umberto Eco Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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