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A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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When I was in middle school, some of my so-called friends found a catalogue ad I did for Superman pajamas. They made as many copies as they could and pasted them up all over school. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#catalogue #copies #could #did #found

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the great cause of this progress, should be called not a humanist, but a humanitarian, and his creed may be designated as humanitarianism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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I was trying to make something really hard, but then I thought I should make something really soft instead, that could be molded into different shapes. That was how I came up with the first plastic. I called it Bakelite. ↗

— Leo Baekeland

#came #could #different #different shapes #first

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. ↗

— Enid Bagnold

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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#base #broken #called #chunks #code

I called the doctor, during writing the book, the psychiatrist who treated me at that time, Dr. Jackson. And I said, Dr. Jackson, whole pieces are missing. I don't understand what happened to me. ↗

— Jim Bakker

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I produced and directed a movie a couple years ago that won some awards that Samuel Goldwyn released called 'The Last Good Time'. I wrote, produced and directed it, but I wasn't in it. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#awards #called #couple #directed #good

I think we are living in selfish times. I'm the first one to say that I'm the most selfish. We live in the so-called 'first world,' and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy. ↗

— Javier Bardem

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