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  • Sydney Smith Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Brunello Cucinelli Black is overrated. You'll never find it in my stores. Of course it's slimming, but it's just used too much, especially for men. One black suit by one designer, another one by another - they all look the same in the end. If I walk into a crowded hotel lobby and I'm wearing a black suit, I just look like everyone else.
    Brunello Cucinelli
    Italian designer and businessman
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  • George Eliot Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Wendy Cope Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop two or three others appear.
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  • John Dryden Bold knaves thrive without one grain of sense, but good men starve for want of impudence.
    Epilogue to Constantine the Great
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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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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  • James Russell Lowell Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Sir John Denham Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
    Sir John Denham
    Anglo-Irish poet and courtier (1615 - 1669)
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  • Bono Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Susan Sontag Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Mark Twain Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles Simmons Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.
    Charles Simmons
    American editor and novelist (1798 - 1856)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Cal Hubbard Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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  • Bill Dedman Brand names are well known to business school professors, but only one professor is a brand name herself. Call her Professor Oprah.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Johann Gottfried Von Herder Brave is the lion tamer, brave is the world subduer, but braver is the one who has subdued himself.
    Johann Gottfried Von Herder
    German poet and theologian (1744 - 1803)
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  • Mark van Doren Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
    Mark van Doren
    American poet, writer and critic (1894 - 1972)
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  • Heywood Broun Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.
    Heywood Broun
    American Journalist, Novelist (1888 - 1939)
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  • Cab Calloway Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
    Cab Calloway
    American jazz singer, dancer, bandleader and actor (1907 - 1994)
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