Quotes with not-so-funny

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  • Elmore Leonard Bad guys are not bad guys twenty-four hours a day.
    Elmore Leonard
    American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter (1925 - 2013)
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • George Jean Nathan Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
    George Jean Nathan
    American criticus (1882 - 1958)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Evans Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
    Billy Evans
    American umpire in Major League Baseball (1884 - )
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  • John Updike Bankruptcy is a sacred state, a condition beyond conditions, as theologians might say, and attempts to investigate it are necessarily obscene, like spiritualism. One knows only that he has passed into it and lives beyond us, in a condition not ours.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Bill Kristol Barack Obama is not going to beat Hillary Clinton in a single democratic primary. I'll predict that right now.
    Fox News Sunday, December 17, 2006 [2]
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Bob Greene Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
    Bob Greene
    American journalist and author (1947 - )
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  • Bill Buckner Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
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  • Bryce Harper Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
    Bryce Harper
    American baseball player (1992 - )
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bill Walton Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • John Berryman Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
    John Berryman
    American poet and scholar (1914 - 1972)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Francis Quarles Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou hast pleased thyself, there thou abidest.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Walt Whitman Be curious, not judgmental.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Owen Meredith Be it jewel or toy, not the prize gives the joy, but the striving to win the prize.
    Owen Meredith
    British writer, critic and politician (ps. of Edward Bulwer-Lytton) (1802 - 1873)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Be not a slave of words.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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