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In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective… — Claude Bernard
Each action of the actor on the stage should be the visible concomitant of his thoughts. — Sarah Bernhardt
Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He… — Sarah Bernhardt
The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear. — Sarah Bernhardt
The key to the mystery of a great artist is that for reasons unknown, he will give away his energies and his life just to… — Leonard Bernstein
Even Napoleon had his Watergate. — Yogi Berra
So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face. — Yogi Berra
A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name. — Annie Besant
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
The orthodox believers in God are divided into two camps, one of which maintains that the existence of God is as demonstrable as any mathematical… — Annie Besant
Everyone knows the beautiful story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac. How this noble father led his child to the slaughter; how Isaac meekly… — Annie Besant
Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds below the spiritual, in order that he may… — Annie Besant
All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die… — Annie Besant
As a man may be born with a mathematical faculty, and by training that faculty year after year may immensely increase his mathematical capacity, so… — Annie Besant
As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole… — Annie Besant
At the solemn moment of death, every man, even when death is sudden, sees the whole of his past life marshalled before him, in its… — Annie Besant
Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is… — Annie Besant
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A… — Annie Besant
Jeremiah is a most melancholy prophet. He wails from beginning to end; he is often childish, is rarely indecent, and although it may be blasphemy… — Annie Besant
The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without… — Mary McLeod Bethune

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