#wit

Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet. ↗

— Abdelaziz Bouteflika

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Our essential differences from the norm are both huge and deeply offensive to those among us who wish to be quietly integrated into society without particular reference to our nature. ↗

— Malcolm Boyd

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To be sympathetic without discrimination is so very debilitating. ↗

— Ronald Firbank

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Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet. ↗

— Ernest Bramah

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You can have many different selection systems, but the bottom line has to be a system that, once the judge takes office that judge will feel that he or she is to decide the case without reference to the popular thing or the popular will of the moment. ↗

— Stephen Breyer

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The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge. ↗

— Jim Broadbent

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No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness. ↗

— Hermann Broch

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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool. ↗

— Adam Brody

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Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology. ↗

— David Bromstad

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Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

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