#think

The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#original #original sin #poet #sin #thinker

Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent. ↗

— Michael Bergdahl

#compete #complacent #even #ever #found

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#apart #beauty #blessing #expectations #object

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#discord #fabulous #find #hearts #i

I would think anyone who does anything is always concerned about their customers. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#always #anyone #anything #concerned #customers

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands. ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#day #game #i #i think #stands

Because success is such a weasel word anyway, it's such a horribly American word, and it's such a vamp and, I think it's a death trap. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#anyway #because #death #horribly #i

Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that. ↗

— Daniel Berrigan

#always #country #ecology #europe #foreign

I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do. ↗

— Halle Berry

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