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Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall. ↗

— William Rehnquist

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Although I have to admit I have despised a couple of people simply because they have never had a job in their lives. ↗

— Jeffrey Bernard

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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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In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect. ↗

— Tristan Bernard

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You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You've got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don't feel it, nothing will happen. ↗

— William Bernbach

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

— Sarah Bernhardt

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The theatre is the involuntary reflex of the ideas of the crowd. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician. ↗

— Daniel Bernoulli

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