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Buffaloes are stronger than the lions, but they often fall prey to lions because they hesitate to be courageous and thus run away! Be determined or accept being destroyed! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Build a dream and the dream will build you. – Dr. Robert Schuller
Build for your team a feeling of oneness, of dependence on one another and of strength to be derived by unity. – Vince Lombardi
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory. – Douglas MacArthur
Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points. – Knute Rockne
Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs. – Anthony D'Angelo
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock. – Miguel de Cervantes
Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered. – Anonymous
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status. – Laurence J. Peter
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy. – Charles Peters
Burning books is not as grave as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Burning the witch Giordano Bruno is one more wound inflicted on Christ’s body. – Dejan Stojanovic
Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas. – Ken Weaver
Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs. – David Borenstein
Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money. – Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
Business is always interfering with pleasure, but it makes other pleasures possible. – William Faulkner
Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight. – Henry Robinson Luce
Business strategies can interestingly be assimilated with medicinal drugs. There are no better or worse strategies. There are only adequately adopted business strategies or inappropriately selected and implemented strategies. – Abderrahman Hassi
Business today consists in persuading crowds. – Gerald Stanley Lee
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach. – Woodrow Wilson
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. – Nicholas Murray Butler
Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success we forget the easiness of free beauty lying sad right around the corner, only an instant removed, unnoticed and squandered. – Dejan Stojanovic
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. – John Adams
But all God's angels come to us disguised... – James Russell Lowell
But all who are not lunitics are agreed about certain things: That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than to be a slave. Many people desire these things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can be refuted by science: Mankind has become so much one family that we cannot insure our own prosperity except by insuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy. – Bertrand Russell, from the essay "The Science to Save Us From Science"
But all who humble themselves before the Lord shall be given every blessing and shall have wonderful peace. – Psalm 3711 TLB Bible
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God. – Socrates, Apology, (Plato)
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus. – Henry Louis Mencken
But be, as you have been, my happiness... – Randall Jarrell
But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions. – D. H. Lawrence
But despite these differences, so many of our faiths and traditions are rooted in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would want done to you. Isn’t allowing adults to marry the person they love consistent with the Golden Rule? – Ken Mehlman
But did thee feel the earth move? – Ernest Hemingway
But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will. – Matthew Arnold
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. – John Dryden
But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little and who talk too much. – John Dryden
But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously. – Paul Wiener
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. – Thomas Jefferson
But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having. – John Perry Barlow
But he that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abused and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. – Matthew 2311, 12 Bible
But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more. – N. P. Willis
But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely. – Charles Dickens
But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell. – Charles E. Wilson
But I know somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars. – Martin Luther King Jr.
But I'm not so think as you drunk I am. – Sir J.C. Squire, Ballade of Soporific Absorption
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams. – W. B. Yeats
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate. – Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold"
But if you build your life on dreams it's prudent to recall a man with moonlight in his hands has nothing there at all. – Don Quixote
But in modern war you will die like a dog for no good reason. – Ernest Hemingway
But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. – Bruce Leverett - "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"
But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. – Benjamin Franklin
But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it. – Judith Viorst
But love is blind and lovers cannot see The pretty follies that themselves commit; For if they could, Cupid himself would blush To see me thus transformed to a boy. – William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. – Ernest Hemingway
But more importantly, you've got to play with your heart, with every fiber of your body. If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second. – Vince Lombardi
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. – Alan B. Watts
But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute. – William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece Ver. 124
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see. – George Meredith
But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see. – George Meredith
But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save me, oh, save me, from the candid friend. – David Bissonette
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain – Lois McMaster Bujold
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain? – Lois McMaster Bujold, "Barrayar", 1991
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings. – John F. Kennedy
But penance need not be paid in suffering...It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move. – Barbara Hall
But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. – George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8
But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. – Jacques Derrida, Quoted in New York Times, January 23, 1994
But respect yourself most of all. – Golden verses of the Pythagoreans
But screw up your courage to the sticking place, And we'll not fail. – Mary Bertone
But search the land of living men, Wher wilst thou find their like again. – Walter Scott
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable. – E. M. Forster
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. – Carl Sagan
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. – The Apostle Paul (Saul of Tarsus), The Bible- Galations 5:22-23 NIV
But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness -- each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked -- each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. – Herbert Butterfield
But the life that no longer trust another human being and no longer forms ties to the political community is not a human life any longer. – Martha Nussbaum
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. – Arthur C. Clarke
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. – Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
But then I sigh, and with a piece of scripture,Tell them that God bids us do good for evil.And thus I clothe my naked villainyWith odd old ends stolen forth of holy writ,And seem I a saint, when most I play the Devil. – William Shakespeare
But then peace, peace I am so mistrustful of it so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. – D. H. Lawrence
But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. – Andrew Schneider
But this is the second work of the law when it hath by its convictions brought the sinner into a condition of a sense of guilt which he cannot avoid, -- nor will anything tender him relief, which way so ever he lose, for he is in a desert, -- it represents unto him the holiness and severity of God, with his indignation and wrath against sin which have a resemblance of a consuming fire. This fills his heart with dread and terror and makes him see his miserable, undone condition. – John Owen
But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo the splendor of fame fades into nothing but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette. – James Grover Thurber
But thou, O man of God, flee these things and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. – 1 Timothy 611 Bible
But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! – Friedrich Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Chapter 29
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. – William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 1 scene 4
But to my mind, though I am native here And to the manner born, it is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance. – William Shakespeare
But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning Never sick, never old, never dead From itself never turning. – Sir Walter Raleigh
But what do we mean by the American Revolution Do we mean the American War The revolution was effected before the war commenced. The revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people. – Geoffrey F. Albert
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads. – Albert Camus
But what is the difference between literature and journalism ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. – Oscar Wilde
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? ...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all. – Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891
But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. – Jane Austen
But when you start disagreeing with the answers, you've got a problem. – R. E. Phillips
But wherefore thou alone Wherefore with theeCame not all hell broke loose Is pain to themLess pain, less to be fled, or thou than theyLess hardy to endure Courageous chief,The first in flight from pain, hadst thou allegedTo thy deserted host this cause of flight,Thou surely hadst not come sole fugitive. – John Milton
But who is to guard the guards themselves – Juvenal
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. – George Gordon Byron
But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. – Lord Byron
But words came halting forth, wanting Inventions stayInvention, Natures child, fled step-dame Studys blows...Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite,Fool, said my Muse to me look in thy heart and write. – Sir Philip Sidney
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. – Alfred North Whitehead
But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. – William Shakespeare
But, my dearest Agathon, it is truth which you cannot contradict; you can without any difficulty contradict Socrates. – Plato, Symposium
But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare
But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. – William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 1
Buy on the rumor sell on the news. – Wall Street Proverb
Buy on the rumor; sell on the news. – Wall Street Proverb
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. – Arthuer Schopenhauer

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