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Roger Babson
"Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final."
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Francis Bacon
"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." [Essays]
"Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversit is not without comforts and hopes."
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George Bancroft
"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."
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Harry F. Banks
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
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Frederic Bastiat
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else."
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George Bancroft
"Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect."
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Harry F. Banks
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
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Frederic Bastiat
"Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to live at the expense of everybody else."
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Lyman Frank Baum
"If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace." [Dorothy in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"]
"To write fairy stories for children, to amuse them, to divert restless children, sick children, to keep them out of mischief on rainy days, seems of greater importance than to write grown-up novels."
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Burak Bekdil
[Veteran Turkish columnist writing currently for the daily Hürriyet]
* "The generic difference between a devout Muslim and an Islamist is the simple fact that a devout Muslim would abstain from alcohol and pork, whereas an Islamist would force others to abstain from alcohol and pork."
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Henry Ward Beecher
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."
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L.K. Bendele
"A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts."
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Ezra Taft Benson
"The way to feel better about our own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances."
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Bruno Bettelheim
Ambrose Bierce
"Future: that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured."
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Frank Birch
* "The price of wisdom is eternal thought."
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Otto von Bismarck
"A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence."
"Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death."
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William Blake
* "Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings."
* "Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs."
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Nicholas Bolleau
"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
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Daniel Boone
"Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man."
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Robert Bork
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
* "An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
"How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right."
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James Boswell
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
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James Bovard
* "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner." (1994)
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Sir Mackenzie Bowell
* "I have lived long enough to come to the conclusion, that if a man believes in one particular principle, or one particular creed and thinks it is the best, it is not for me to interfere with his conscience, nor do I think any one else should interfere with his conscience, or with the course which he may think proper to pursue, so long as he does not attempt to interfere with others."
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Francis Herbert Bradley
"Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is."
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Berton Braley
"...Let the words of true encouragement be said.
Do not wait till life is over
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead."
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Fanny Brice
* "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"
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Emily Bronté
"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."
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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." [Life's Little Instruction Book]
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Les Brown
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
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Rita Mae Brown
“Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults”
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Merry Browne
"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
Joseph Bryant
(Thayendanegea of the Mohawk Tribe)
"No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation."
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William Cullen Bryant
* "Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
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Comte de Buffon
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."
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Charles Bukowski
Edmund Burke
"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
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James Burke
* "Any one of a million things could fail and cause our complex civilization to collapse for an hour, for a day, or however long. That's when you find out the extent to which you are reliant on technology and don't even know it. That's when you see that it's so interdependent, that if you take one thing away, the whole thing falls down and leaves you with nothing."
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John Burroughs
* "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else."
"One resolution I have made, and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."
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Douglas Busch
"Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats."
"If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace." [Dorothy in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"]
"To write fairy stories for children, to amuse them, to divert restless children, sick children, to keep them out of mischief on rainy days, seems of greater importance than to write grown-up novels."
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Burak Bekdil
[Veteran Turkish columnist writing currently for the daily Hürriyet]
* "The generic difference between a devout Muslim and an Islamist is the simple fact that a devout Muslim would abstain from alcohol and pork, whereas an Islamist would force others to abstain from alcohol and pork."
_____
Henry Ward Beecher
"Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength."
_____
L.K. Bendele
"A man without a plan for the day is lost before he starts."
_____
Ezra Taft Benson
"The way to feel better about our own situation is to improve someone else's circumstances."
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Bruno Bettelheim
"The question for the child is not 'Do I want to be good?' but 'Whom do I want to be like?'"
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Ambrose Bierce
"Future: that period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured."
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Frank Birch
* "The price of wisdom is eternal thought."
_____
Otto von Bismarck
"A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence."
"Preventive war is like committing suicide for fear of death."
_____
William Blake
* "Everything that is possible to be believed is an image of the truth."
"No bird soars too high, if he soars on his own wings."
* "Want of Money & the Distress of A Thief can never be alleged as the Cause of his Thieving, for many honest people endure greater hard ships with Fortitude. We must therefore seek the Cause else where than in want of Money for that is the Misers passion, not the Thiefs."
_____
Nicholas Bolleau
"A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him."
_____
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."
_____
Daniel Boone
"Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man."
_____
Robert Bork
"A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."
* "An egalitarian educational system is necessarily opposed to meritocracy and reward for achievement. It is inevitably opposed to procedures that might reveal differing levels of achievement."
"How did Taney know that slave ownership was a constitutional right? Such a right is nowhere to be found in the Constitution. He knew it because he was passionately convinced that it must be a constitutional right."
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James Boswell
"We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
_____
James Bovard
* "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for dinner." (1994)
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Sir Mackenzie Bowell
* "I have lived long enough to come to the conclusion, that if a man believes in one particular principle, or one particular creed and thinks it is the best, it is not for me to interfere with his conscience, nor do I think any one else should interfere with his conscience, or with the course which he may think proper to pursue, so long as he does not attempt to interfere with others."
_____
Francis Herbert Bradley
"Up to a certain point every man is what he thinks he is."
_____
Berton Braley
"...Let the words of true encouragement be said.
Do not wait till life is over
And he's underneath the clover,
For he cannot read his tombstone when he's dead."
_____
Fanny Brice
* "Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?"
_____
Emily Bronté
"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste."
_____
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." [Life's Little Instruction Book]
_____
Les Brown
"Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life."
_____
Rita Mae Brown
“Persons are judged to be great because of the positive qualities they possess, not because of the absence of faults”
_____
Merry Browne
"Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom."
_____
(Thayendanegea of the Mohawk Tribe)
"No person among us deserves any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation."
_____
William Cullen Bryant
* "Loveliest of lovely things are they,
On earth, that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower."
_____
Comte de Buffon
"Never think that God's delays are God's denials. Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius."
_____
Charles Bukowski
* "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence."
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Edmund Burke
"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
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James Burke
* "Any one of a million things could fail and cause our complex civilization to collapse for an hour, for a day, or however long. That's when you find out the extent to which you are reliant on technology and don't even know it. That's when you see that it's so interdependent, that if you take one thing away, the whole thing falls down and leaves you with nothing."
_____
John Burroughs
* "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he
begins to blame somebody else."
"One resolution I have made, and always try to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."
_____
Douglas Busch
"Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats."
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Nicholas Murray Butler
Nicholas Murray Butler
"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress."
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Samuel Butler
* "The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance."
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Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
* "I cannot, and will not, sign an oath to vote for an individual whose identity I do not know and whose principles and policies are thus unknown. To sign such a blank check would be, I feel, the height of irresponsibility and unworthy of a member of the United States Senate... I would rather be a free man than a captive senator."
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
* "The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars."
"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
* "What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis."
"The things that mankind has tested and found right make for harmony and progress — or peace; and the things it has found wrong hinder progress and make for discord. The right things lead to rational behavior — such as the substitution of reason for force — and so to freedom. The wrong things lead to brute force and slavery. But the peace I describe is not passive. It must be won. Real peace comes from struggle that involves such things as effort, discipline, enthusiasm. This is also the way to strength. An inactive peace may lead to sensuality and flabbiness, which are discordant. It is often necessary to fight to lessen discord. This is the paradox."
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Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.
* "I cannot, and will not, sign an oath to vote for an individual whose identity I do not know and whose principles and policies are thus unknown. To sign such a blank check would be, I feel, the height of irresponsibility and unworthy of a member of the United States Senate... I would rather be a free man than a captive senator."
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Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd
* "The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars."
"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used."
* "What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but I have found out, as have others who move in and out of newspaper headlines, that on occasion it can matter a good deal. For once you enter the world of headlines you learn there is not one truth but two: the one which you know from the facts; and the one which the public, or at any rate a highly imaginative part of the public, acquires by osmosis."
"The things that mankind has tested and found right make for harmony and progress — or peace; and the things it has found wrong hinder progress and make for discord. The right things lead to rational behavior — such as the substitution of reason for force — and so to freedom. The wrong things lead to brute force and slavery. But the peace I describe is not passive. It must be won. Real peace comes from struggle that involves such things as effort, discipline, enthusiasm. This is also the way to strength. An inactive peace may lead to sensuality and flabbiness, which are discordant. It is often necessary to fight to lessen discord. This is the paradox."
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