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I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open. ↗

— John Berger

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It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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Some people think that as the Chinese economy becomes more and more capitalistic it will inevitably become more democratic. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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Spirituality was the main issue. Connection with God was the main issue. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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Imagination creates reality. ↗

— Richard Wagner

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