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Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know. – John Keats, -
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allen Poe
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. – Sara Teasdale
Beavers bred in captivity, inhabiting a concrete pool, will, if given the timber, fatuously go through all the motions of damming and ancestral stream. – Evelyn Waugh, Work Suspended (1943)
Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn't about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change. – Miles Davis
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity. – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Six
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all. – Neil Postman
Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. – E.M. Forster
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' – Clare Booth Luce
Because I could not stop for Death -- He kindly stopped for me -- The carriage held but just ourselvesAnd immortality. – Emily Dickinson
Because I have been a magician for many years, people have often asked me whether I ever have sawn a woman in half. I reply, Oh, yes I've sawn over seventy women in half in my lifetime, and I'm learning the second half of the trick now. – Raymond Smullyan
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die. – Amelia Burr
Because I'm technologically able to find a like-minded person on the other side of the globe, I'm also more interested in making friends with my next-door neighbor. – Jeffrey Klein
Because of Christ's resurrection--and His guarantee that He will resurrect all who believe in Him--we are the most fortunate, the most blest people on the planet Our faith is effective, we are not in our sins, our departed loved ones are with the Lord, and the labor we do for Him is not in vain. – Bob Wilkin
Because of what you have done the heavens have become a part of man's world. And as you talk to us from the Sea of Tranquillity, it inspires us to redouble our efforts to bring peace and Tranquillity to Earth. For one priceless moment, in the whole history of man, all the people on this Earth are truly one. One in their pride in what you have done. One in our prayers that you will return safely to Earth. – Richard Milhous Nixon
Because systems of mass communication can communicate only officially acceptable levels of reality, no one can know the extent of the secret unconscious life. No one in America can know what will happen. No one is in real control. – Allen Ginsberg
Because the results are expressed in numbers, it is easy to make the mistake of thinking that the intelligence test is a measure like a foot ruler or a pair of scales. It is, of course, a quite different sort of measure. Intelligence is not an abstraction like length and weight; it is an exceedingly complicated notion - which nobody has yet succeeded in defining. – Walter Lippmann
Because the women are watching. – T. E. Lawrence, ...when asked, Why do men go to war?
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. – Bertolt Brecht
Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially. – Ashley Montagu
Because you are in control of your life. Don't ever forget that. You are what you are because of the conscious and subconscious choices you have made. – Barbara Hall
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. – Norman Vincent Peale
Become addicted to constant and never-ending self improvement. – Anthony D'Angelo
Become aware of internal, subjective subverbal 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 hither unconscious and uncontrollable processes – Abraham Harold Maslow

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