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Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
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Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
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Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
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Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
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Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
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Before confessing, be perfectly certain that you do not wish to be forgiven.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
― Austin O'Malley
American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932) -
Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
Source: The Conquest Of Happiness -
Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
Original:Bettler aber sollte man ganz abschaffen! Wahrlich, man ärgert sich ihnen zu geben und ärgert sich ihnen nicht zu geben.
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Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
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Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Source: Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)― Bernard M. Baruch
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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
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Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
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Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
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Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
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Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
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