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When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#because #came #could #day #down

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#before #boy #dog #down #importance

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#awe #einstein #emotion #eyes #life

Free yourself from the rigid conduct of tradition and open yourself to the new forms of probability. ↗

— Hans Bender

#forms #free #new #open #probability

I am very willing to share whatever I know or feel I know about finding some serenity in this lifetime. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#am #feel #finding #i #i am

CBS started to confiscate our packages and mail as a safety procedure. A lot of packages that people send for the holidays and to our kids we can't open. A lot of times they are from overseas. It's very upsetting at times. ↗

— Hunter Tylo

#holidays #kids #lot #mail #open

In Italy, the country where fascism was born, we have a particular relation with the Holocaust, but as a turning point in history it belongs to everybody in the world. It is a part of humanity. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#born #country #everybody #fascism #history

I don't really like this song," Emma had said. "You told me it was your favourite." "It's beautiful. But it always makes me sad." "Why, love?" he'd asked gently. "It's about finding each other again. About someone coming home." Emma had lifted her head from his shoulder and looked at him earnestly. "It's about losing someone, and having to wait until you're together in heaven." "There's nothing in the lyrics about heaven," he'd said. "But that's what it means. I can't bear the idea of being separated from you, for a lifetime or a year or even a day. So you mustn't go to heaven without me." "Of course not," he had whispered. "It wouldn't be heaven without you. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #beauty

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#masses #much #perception #process #reality

Antiwhite racism is developing in sections of our cities where individuals - some of whom have French nationality - contemptuously designate French people as gaulois on the pretext they don't share the same religion, color or origins. ↗

— Jean-Francois Cope

#color #designate #developing #french #french people