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Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them. ↗

— John Barton

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It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. ↗

— William Bartram

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The point of an experiment is not to arrive at a predetermined end point, to prove or disprove anything, but to deliver a poem that reveals much about the process taken. ↗

— John Barton

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The general public thinks all little people are in circuses or sideshows. We have doctors, nurses, just about every field covered. ↗

— Billy Barty

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Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing in life-in my case, dancing. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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