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Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force. ↗

— Irving Berlin

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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. ↗

— Hector Berlioz

#composer #despair #down #every #forgetting

The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#businesses #crisis #declines #destroyed #economic

That includes not cutting down the rain forest, and stop polluting the ocean because once we kill the coral reefs and the rain forest, this earth is toast. ↗

— Michael Berryman

#coral #cutting #down #earth #forest

I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#being #big #changing #deserve #food

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. ↗

— Pierre Berton

#destroy #divide #enemy #freedom #head-on

For centuries the leaders of Christian thought spoke of women as a necessary evil, and the greatest saints of the Church are those who despise women the most. ↗

— Annie Besant

#christian #church #despise #evil #greatest

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak. ↗

— George Best

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Having a baby is one of the most wonderful things in your life, as well as the hardest thing in your life. ↗

— Nuno Bettencourt

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Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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