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Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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As a result of my study, I came to the conclusion that a common supreme authority was undesirable. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

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Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest. ↗

— Roy Barnes

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We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little - my brother and me and my parents. It was hell, but it was a common thing. My father was not general or admiral, but he was colonel. He was teaching in military academy military topography. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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