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America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
America
Frederic Auguste Bartholdi

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There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.
Possibilities
Bernard M. Baruch

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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
Society
Simone De Beauvoir

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Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Charity
Henry Ward Beecher

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I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Colleges and Universities
Sir Max Beerbohm

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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
Humility
Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.
Biography
Hilaire Belloc

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To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.
Awareness
Walter Benjamin

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A good idea plus capable men cannot fail; it is better than money in the bank.
Ideas
John Berry

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The purpose of getting power is to be able to give it away.
Power
Aneurin Bevan

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Sages speak of the immutable Tree of Life, with its tape root above and its branches below.
Spirit and Spirituality
Bhagavad Gita

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The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.
Body
Bhagavad Gita

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A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love
Ambrose Bierce

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An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws.
Misfortunes
Ambrose Bierce

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Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.
Happiness
Ambrose Bierce

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Politeness -- The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Politeness
Ambrose Bierce

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Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.
Religion
Ambrose Bierce

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Success is the one unpardonable sin against one's fellows.
Success
Ambrose Bierce

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I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.
Age and Aging
Josh Billings

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Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
Books - Reading
Augustine Birrell

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Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Thoughts and Thinking
Niels Bohr

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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Writers and Writing
Nicholas Boileau

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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Bolingbroke

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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Freedom of Speech
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Decisions
Napoleon Bonaparte

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun