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  • Jean de la Bruyère To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Alan Watts To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Baltasar Gracián To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Mark Twain To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bertrand Russell To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bill Engvall To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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  • William Penn To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Berry Wendell To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
    Berry Wendell
    American novelist, poet and environmental activist (1934 - )
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  • Wendell Berry To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
    Wendell Berry
    American writer and poet (1934 - )
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  • Charles Baudelaire To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Bono To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • William Hazlitt To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Akhenaton To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman To be sure an European woman would blush to her fingers ends at the very idea of appearing publicly stark naked; but education and prejudice are everything, since it is an axiom, that where there is no feeling of self-reproach, there can assuredly be no shame.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Scott Reed To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.
    Scott Reed
    American author
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  • Sir Thomas Browne To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • William Cowper To combat may be glorious, and succes perhaps may crown us; but to fly is safe.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Huey Newton To die for the racists is lighter than a feather, but to die for the people is heavier than any mountain and deeper than any sea.
    Source: To Die for the People (1972)
    Huey Newton
    African-American political activist (1942 - 1989)
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