#us

In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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I would be happy at a piano bar, singing. I just want to home in on being the best singer I can be. ↗

— Debby Boone

#be happy #being #being the best #best #happy

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny. ↗

— Catherine Booth

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But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls. ↗

— Edwin Booth

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The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness. ↗

— Edwin Booth

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We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together. ↗

— John Pearson

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There is an audience for every play; it's just that sometimes it can't wait long enough to find it. ↗

— Shirley Booth

#enough #every #find #just #long

The central problem of novel-writing is causality. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

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Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

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When a judge assumes the power to decide which distinctions made in a statute are legitimate and which are not, he assumes the power to disapprove of any and all legislation, because all legislation makes distinctions. ↗

— Robert Bork

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