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A good director creates an environment, which gives the actor the encouragement to fly. ↗

— Kevin Bacon

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon. ↗

— Roger Bacon

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

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A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by the order of creation. Universal: that which can interest, rightly, every human individual, according to his pure humanity. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience. ↗

— George P. Baker

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I never really look for anything. What God throws my way comes. I wake up in the morning and whichever way God turns my feet, I go. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

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When the drama attains a characterization which makes the play a revelation of human conduct and a dialogue which characterizes yet pleases for itself, we reach dramatic literature. ↗

— George P. Baker

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The last Hague Conference has in the meantime expressed its opinion that a body should be established which could prepare for the work involved more effectively than has hitherto proved possible. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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There is one criticism which cannot be leveled at interparliamentary conferences but which is applicable to a great extent to peace congresses: the meetings waste time. ↗

— Fredrik Bajer

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