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We don't have a monopoly. We have market share. There's a difference. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

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In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. ↗

— Ed Balls

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You could get a cheer by saying: 'Let's withdraw from Afghanistan', but I don't think that's where the public's at. It wouldn't be responsible. ↗

— Ed Balls

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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible. ↗

— Balthus

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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

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What is history but a fable agreed upon? ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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