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If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#affair #because #build #business #cliffs

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#depends #order #shape #upon #which

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#book #dead #died #friends #guts

The force of the blow depends on the resistance. It is sometimes better not to struggle against temptation. Either fly or yield at once. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#better #blow #depends #either #fly

Fail, and your friends feel superior. Succeed, and they feel resentful. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#feel #friends #resentful #succeed #superior

I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing. ↗

— Jo Brand

#actually #because #big #embarrassed #encouraging

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#acquaintances #after #back #circle #experiences

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance. ↗

— Richard Branson

#africa #balance #better #big #enjoy

The future of our nation depends on our ability to produce food and fiber to sustain the world. ↗

— Phil Bredesen

#depends #fiber #food #future #nation