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I learned to stand up for myself at school where I was never too popular. ↗

— Sophie Ellis Bextor

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Mediocre theoretical physicists make no progress. They spend all their time understanding other people's progress. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. ↗

— Edmund Waller

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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

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My heart hath often been deeply afflicted under a feeling that the standard of pure righteousness is not lifted up to the people by us, as a society, in that clearness which it might have been, had we been as faithful as we ought to be to the teachings of Christ. ↗

— John Woolman

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I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change. ↗

— Richard Nelson Bolles

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You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what you think when you already know what you think. ↗

— John Bolton

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It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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