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  • P. J. O'Rourke Automobiles are free of egotism, passion, prejudice and stupid ideas about where to have dinner. They are, literally, selfless. A world designed for automobiles instead of people would have wider streets, larger dining rooms, fewer stairs to climb and no smelly, dangerous subway stations.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Baby, in a world without pity
    Do you think what I'm askin's too much
    I just want to feel you in my arms
    Share a little of that Human Touch.
    Source: Human Touch (1992) Human Touch
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
    Bill Veeck
    American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter (1914 - )
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  • Branch Rickey Baseball people are generally allergic to new ideas; it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms, and it is the hardest thing in the world to get Major League Baseball to change anything 'even spikes on a new pair of shoes' but they will eventually... they are bound to.
    Source: In 1954
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Babe Ruth Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Bill James Baseball would be a quite remarkable activity if it was the one place in the world where your co-workers didn't have any impact on how productive you were. But in fact, baseball is a high-stress occupation, and those sort of stress-inducing activities... just have a huge impact on how the team functions, I think.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bette Davis Basically, I believe the world is a jungle, and if it's not a bit of a jungle in the home, a child cannot possibly be fit to enter the outside world.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Shakespeare Be patient, For the world is broad and wide.
    Source: Romeo and Juliet 3, 3
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John Donne Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Louis de Bernieres Beauty is precious, you see, and the more beautiful something is, the more precious it is; and the more precious it is the more it hurts us that it will fade away; and the more we are hurt by beauty, the more we love the world.
    Louis de Bernieres
    British novelist (1954 - )
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  • Umberto Eco Because of lies, we can produce and invent a possible world.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Bill Clinton Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Abraham H. Maslow Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Barney Frank Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alan Alda Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Source: Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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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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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Carolyn Murphy Being in the world of fashion you have to be very self-absorbed, and you are surrounded by people who are very self-absorbed.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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