Quotes with nine-and-a-half

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  • A. C. Swinburne Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
    A. C. Swinburne
    English poet and playwright (1837 - 1909)
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  • Baba Kalyani Bofors was a steelmaker that became a forgings company and then went on to build guns. Companies like Krupp and Thyssen were in steel and forgings before entering defence. There are similar examples in the U.K.; it is a natural progression.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • H. G. Bohn Boldness is business is the first, second, and third thing.
    H. G. Bohn
    British publisher
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Boldness will be at a disadvantage only in an encounter with deliberate caution, which may be considered bold in its own right, and is certainly just as powerful and effective; but such cases are rare.
    Source: On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bill Gross 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.
    Bill Gross
    American investor, fund manager, and philanthropist (1944 - )
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  • Bruce Feirstein Bond is a classic archetype character, a character that's embedded in our heads forever, one of a lone warrior setting out to avenge a nation - and you find that character across cultures.
    Bruce Feirstein
    American screenwriter and humorist (1956 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
    Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Aldous Huxley Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • W. Clement Stone Bondage is... subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Barry Sternlicht Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Walter Benjamin Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Molière Books and marriage go ill together.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • John Ruskin Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine-tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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