#or

A great many grown-up and intelligent people believe, or pretend to believe, that by behaving in a friendly and accommodating way to our attackers, we will show them that they have nothing to fear from us and so defuse their wrath. The idea that such behavior would be taken by a ruthless and implacable enemy only as a sign of weakness is as foreign to them as the idea of honor itself. ↗

— James Bowman

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The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#already #art #begun #completion #informs

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#communications #entirely #formal #future #markets

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#congress #critical #efficient #employment #fairly

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. ↗

— Edward Bernays

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He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers. ↗

— Richard Hooker

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One of the things that goes with getting older is that one becomes more conservative - and I emphasise that when I use the word conservative I do not mean politically. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

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Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#actor #each #his #should #stage

I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct. ↗

— Sandra Bernhard

#humanist #i #much #politically #politically correct

We have limits to what we can do. At some point there has to be an informed personal choice. ↗

— Jim Geringer

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