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Our job is to bring the dead facts to life. ↗

— William Bernbach

#dead #facts #job #life #our

If you start pandering to young people, you're going to get accused of simply giving people what they want. ↗

— Brian Williams

#get #giving #going #pandering #people

We don't ask research to do what it was never meant to do, and that is to get an idea. ↗

— William Bernbach

#get #idea #meant #never #research

If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice which so intensifies life. Death, when it approaches, ought not to take one by surprise. It should be part of the full expectancy of life. ↗

— Muriel Spark

#death

Oscar Wilde: 'Do you mind if I smoke?' Sarah Bernhardt: 'I don't care if you burn.' ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#care #i #mind #oscar #oscar wilde

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#always #cannot #except #ideal #incessant

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#become #children #delinquent #fatherless #fathers

Like many men, I am not ashamed to admit that my principal joys are domestic. I love cooking, and I love looking after my children. Indeed, the times that I have with them are the only ones when I feel unconditionally happy. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#after #am #ashamed #children #cooking

The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#geometry #heart #human #human heart #likes

The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. ↗

— Daniel J. Bernstein

#copy #entry #function #help #important