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Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest school districts across the Nation offset these unexpected and challenging costs. ↗

— Joe Baca

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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colors from the same jewel. ↗

— Richard Bach

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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

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By encouraging its citizens to violate our border, Mexico is pushing a tremendous welfare burden off of its shoulders and onto ours, while also benefiting from the significant sums of U.S. currency that these workers will eventually send back home to their families. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so. ↗

— Howard Baker

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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