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You always think you're better than you are in the beginning. ↗

— Todd Barry

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I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#currents #highs #i #like #lows

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. ↗

— Bernard Baruch

#books #ceased #friends #give #more

I have a character failing. I am quite incapable of identifying with anything whole-heartedly. Whatever I am doing, I am always planning to do something else. I would rather travel than arrive. ↗

— Stephen Bayley

#am #anything #arrive #character #doing

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#best #democracy #educate #give #majority

It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. ↗

— Francis Beaumont

#avoid #injury #more #noble #overcome

It is a revolution, and it can no more be checked by human effort... than a prarie fire by a gardener's watering pot. ↗

— Judah Philip Benjamin

#effort #fire #gardener #human #human effort

Nothing seems to me more doubtful than Aristotle's remark that it is probable the arts and philosophy have several times been discovered and several times lost. ↗

— Julien Benda

#arts #been #discovered #doubtful #lost

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#more #needed #often #scene #self

Most of us would do more for our babies than we have ever been willing to do for anyone, even ourselves. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

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