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I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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People's lives change dramatically over such a long time period, and I think that if you're still vital, and you're still interested in writing and things like that, of course your music evolves and reflects where you are in your life. ↗

— Pat Benatar

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Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

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Don't take yourself too seriously. Know when to laugh at yourself, and find a way to laugh at obstacles that inevitably present themselves. ↗

— Halle Berry

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Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say. ↗

— Charles Stanley

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And so with all things: names were vital and important. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

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I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

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The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable. ↗

— Angela Davis

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