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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • Ben Bernanke As an educator myself, I understand the profound effect that good teachers and a quality education have on the lives of our young people.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Byron Howard As animation directors, you're the first one on the film; you're the last one off, and you get to learn from and touch every department throughout the whole journey. I don't know any other job in the world that's like that. I don't think live-action is like that. It's a very different sort of experience.
    Byron Howard
    American film director and producer (1968 - )
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  • Carter G. Woodson As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy As anyone who has the slightest knowledge of my work knows, I have little in common with Larkin, who was tall, taciturn and thin-on-top, and unlike him I laugh, nay, sneer, in the face of death. I will concede one point: we are both lesbian poets.
    Interviewed in The Guardian, August 31, 2002. [1]
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ben Chandler As attorney general, I can either look into it or I can ignore it because they're a bunch of powerful legislators... and I'm afraid they're going to cut my budget.
    Ben Chandler
    American politician and lawyer (1959 - )
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  • Baruj Benacerraf As biologists, we contemplate with admiration and awe the wondrous array of sophisticated cell interactions and recognitions evolved in the T cell immune system, which must be a model for other similarly complex biological systems of highly differentiated organisms.
    Baruj Benacerraf
    Venezuelan-American immunologist (1920 - 2011)
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  • Boomer Esiason As both a local resident and a parent with a CF-afflicted child, I'm thankful for companies like Canon, Chase and Outback who believe that giving back to the community is critical to their role as corporate citizens.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Stephen Vizinczey As both capitalist and communist states - not to mention the technological world - have evolved under the illusion that men purposefully built them, ideological optimism seeps into every niche of our lives. It is made worse by mass culture which feeds our
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Ben Horowitz As companies move to web-based computing they get a lot more servers, which are difficult to manage and control. All kinds of problems can arise - security, quality and worms.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Bill Maris As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Bob Filner As Congress continues to debate ways to address illegal immigration, we must remember the many hard-working legal immigrants that contribute so much to our nation's economy and culture.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Campbell Brown As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Leonardo Da Vinci As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
    Leonardo Da Vinci
    Italian painter, engineer and musician (1452 - 1519)
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  • Bobby Jindal As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
    Bobby Jindal
    American politician (1971 - )
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  • Bobby Sherman As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
    Bobby Sherman
    American singer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don't need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this kind of transformation in the Middle East.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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