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I decided that my means were sufficient to enable me to devote myself to botany, a determination which I never, during the long period of my subsequent career, had on any occasion any reason to repent of. ↗

— George Bentham

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A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. ↗

— George Berkeley

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The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else. ↗

— Ugo Betti

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We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction. ↗

— Max Bill

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If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness. ↗

— Gunther Grass

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The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this. ↗

— Mary Martin

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That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls. ↗

— Simon Le Bon

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