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Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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To bathe a cat takes brute force, perseverance, courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by. ↗

— Stephen Baker

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Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth. ↗

— Stanley Baldwin

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Error is always more busy than truth. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

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The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force. ↗

— George Bancroft

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Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth. ↗

— Bob Barker

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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. ↗

— Pierre Bayle

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