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Because we have learned to believe negativity is more realistic, it appears more real than any positive voice.
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Beckham is unusual. He was desperate to be a footballer. His mind was made up when he was nine or ten. Many kids think that it's beyond them. But you can't succeed without practising at any sport.
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Before I had a steady job, I was broke, and I didn't have any money to buy anything, so I would illegally download stuff.
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Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.
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Before the Beatles, songwriters were very anonymous people and nobody paid any attention to them.
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Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.
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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
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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Belief is the death of intelligence. As soon as one believes a doctrine of any sort, or assumes certitude, one stops thinking about that aspect of existence.
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Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
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Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics, who themselves are sore.Source: English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809) -
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
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Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four.
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Black writers, of whatever quality, who step outside the pale of what black writers are supposed to write about, or who black writers are supposed to be, are condemned to silences in black literary circles that are as total and as destructive as any imposed by racism.
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Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
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Blessed are the single-hearted, for they shall enjoy much peace. If you refuse to be hurried and pressed, if you stay your soul on God, nothing can keep you from that clearness of spirit which is life and peace. In that stillness you will know what His will is.
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