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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or… — J. G. Ballard
Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good… — J. G. Ballard
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A Buick radiator grille is as… — J. G. Ballard
If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years. — Robert Ballard
The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It… — Steve Ballmer
Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork. — Edward Abbey
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits… — Hans Urs von Balthasar
One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil. — Balthus
The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the… — Balthus
The more one judges, the less one loves. — Honore de Balzac
No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. — Honore de Balzac
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. — Honore de Balzac
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to… — Honore de Balzac
A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and… — Honore de Balzac
Love is a game in which one always cheats. — Honore de Balzac
One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. — Honore de Balzac
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. — Honore de Balzac

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