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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list. ↗

— Charles Babbage

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Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

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Legends are all to do with the past and nothing to do with the present. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

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I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts. ↗

— Sebastian Bach

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We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. ↗