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The threat to the planet is us. It's actually not a threat to the planet - it's a threat to us. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where one looked for running water - there is no help for any of these things. ↗

— Mary Austin

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Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. ↗

— J. L. Austin

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The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those terms, to limit very strictly their acceptation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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In fact, allowing immigrants to have licenses actually improves homeland security by allowing our government to track who is in our borders. ↗

— Joe Baca

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Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important. ↗

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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I planned my success. I knew it was going to happen. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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