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If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living. — Arnold Bennett
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held… — Arnold Bennett
Are you honest with the Lord in the payment of your tithes? Living this divine law will bring both spiritual and material blessings. — Ezra Taft Benson
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of… — Jeremy Bentham
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its… — John Berger
He who is incapable of feeling strong passions, of being shaken by anger, of living in every sense of the word, will never be a… — Sarah Bernhardt
Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist, the only difference between a… — Annie Besant
What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting… — Jello Biafra
Major North has had for years complete power over these Indians and can do more with them than any man living. — Buffalo Bill
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead. — Ambrose Bierce
Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which… — Buffalo Bill
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. — Josh Billings
Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit. — Josh Billings
If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety. — Josh Billings
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking… — Elizabeth Bishop
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife. — Daniel Boone
Lives in eternity's sun rise. — William Blake
I think we should stop drinking bottled water. There's no need to be drinking it if you're living in western communities. — Cate Blanchett
We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the… — Allan Bloom
If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about. — Orlando Bloom
We may not always agree with every one of our neighbors. That's life. And it's part of living in such a diverse and dense city.… — Michael Bloomberg
We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain. — Roberto Bolano
The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all… — Roberto Bolano
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left,… — Erma Bombeck
There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. — Erma Bombeck

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