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  • Samuel Butler A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • John Selden A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a dish or two that he likes, and lets the rest alone: how glorious soever the Church is, every one chooses out of it his own religion, by which he governs himself, and lets the rest alone.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • A. Brisbane A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Bo Bennett A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential; a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Barry Goldwater A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
    Barry Goldwater
    American politician, businessman, and author (1909 - 1998)
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  • Earl Nightingale A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
    Earl Nightingale
    American radio speaker and author (1921 - 1989)
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  • Bobby Bowden A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
    Bobby Bowden
    American football coach (1929 - )
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  • Beverly Sills A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Andrew Bernstein A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
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  • Austin O'Malley A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Abraham Polonsky A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
    Abraham Polonsky
    American film director, screenwriter and novelist (1910 - 1999)
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  • Bram Stoker A house cannot be made habitable in a day; and, after all, how few days go to make up a century.
    Bram Stoker
    Irish author (1847 - 1912)
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  • Max Eastman A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.
    Max Eastman
    American writer on literature, philosophy and society (1883 - 1969)
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Samuel Butler A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Ann Bancroft A life lesson for me is, how do you muster the courage to take on a new risk? Whether it's starting up a business or taking on a new project or expedition. I think the risks that we take are all relative to the risk-taker.
    Ann Bancroft
    American author, teacher, adventurer (1955 - )
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  • Anne Bronte A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
    Anne Bronte
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Marcus Aurelius A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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