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Students rarely disappoint teachers who assure them in advance that they are doomed to failure. ↗

— Sidney Hook

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The swimming community is really conservative. I don't know why, because we're in no clothing whatsoever. ↗

— Amanda Beard

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It is grievous to read the papers in most respects, I agree. More and more I skim the headlines only, for one can be sure what is carried beneath them quite automatically, if one has long been a reader of the press journalism. ↗

— Mary Ritter Beard

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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides. ↗

— Brendan Behan

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Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't. ↗

— Melody Beattie

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It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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Elijah Snow: 'Who have you pissed off this time, John?' John Stone: 'Sumatran robot death sluts -- Dammit, ONE of these buttons fires the atomic death biter -- ↗

— Warren Ellis

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. ↗

— Martha Beck

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