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The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#convictions #facts #far #life #more

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#antiquated #art #art form #attract #created

When we were trying to get the money for Driving Miss Daisy, everyone kept saying no one could direct it well enough to entertain an audience for 100 minutes essentially watching three people chatting in the kitchen. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

#chatting #could #daisy #direct #driving

I am presently in my thirteenth year of teaching a graduate course at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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I am careful with my material and presentation. ↗

— Shelley Berman

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I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime. ↗

— Howard Berman

#essence #government #i #i wish #intellectual

As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#culture #deprived #elevated #i #i see

Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#awaits #dominate #dream #existence #human

The problem is essentially that of communications to an army in action. After a rapid advance communications become disorganized, and there is a temporary halting until they are again in working order. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#advance #after #again #army #become

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

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