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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Anne McCaffrey Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Bobby Charlton 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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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Casey Stengel Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.
    Casey Stengel
    American basketbal player and manager (1890 - 1975)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Benjamin Watson Before competition, as I stand in shoulder pads and cleats, my helmet in my left hand, adrenaline flowing and my heart raging under my right, I never forget the ills of America, but for a moment I envision its potential, remember its prosperity, and give thanks to God for the land He has placed me in and the people I love who live in it.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • W. Mitchell Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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  • Bun E. Carlos 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.
    Bun E. Carlos
    American drummer (1950 - )
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  • Beth Orton Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.
    Beth Orton
    English singer-songwriter (1970 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Brigitte Nielsen Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman; you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.
    Brigitte Nielsen
    Danish actress, model and singer (1963 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Beck Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Kingsley Amis Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • Ben Chaplin Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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