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  • Booth Tarkington Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
    Booth Tarkington
    American novelist and dramatist (1869 - 1946)
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  • Bill Delahunt Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.
    Bill Delahunt
    American lawyer and politician (1941 - )
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  • Billy Eckstine Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster of mine and he always when I first met Bud in Pittsburgh when he came through there, he heard me sing and he wanted me to come to Chicago.
    Billy Eckstine
    American jazz and pop singer and a bandleader (1914 - 1993)
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  • Bodhidharma Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.
    The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • John Donne Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Bernice Weissbourd But however the forms of family life have changed and the number expanded, the role of the family has remained constant and it continues to be the major institution through which children pass en route to adulthood.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Augusten Burroughs But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bob Dylan But if the arrow is straight, And the point is slick, It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Billy Joe Saunders But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.
    Billy Joe Saunders
    English professional boxer (1989 - )
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  • William Shakespeare But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Springsteen But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Beatrice Wood But you can't realize, you can't know what another person goes through.
    Beatrice Wood
    American artist (1893 - 1998)
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  • Arthur Hertzberg But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what they thought they appointed him for, and stays with the separation of powers, and with the right of the law to decide.
    Arthur Hertzberg
    Jewish-American scholar and activist (1921 - 2006)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Edmund Burke By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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