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Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. ↗

— Augusto Roa Bastos

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Creating ways to be happy is your life's work, a challenge that won't end until you die. ↗

— Martha Beck

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The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. ↗

— Max Baucus

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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

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I've done a lot of things in a business where you're lucky to stay alive, so when the time comes, I'll be happy to pass my knowledge along and help someone else. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

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People should decide 'are you willing to spend all this money to go to Mars?' I think the average person on the ground would never spend that amount of money - they have to spend it on something that makes sense and this is definitely saving our planet. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

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It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity. ↗

— Ferdinand Christian Baur

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