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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred. — Jacques Barzun
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to… — Jacques Barzun
Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is… — Abu Bakar Bashir
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the… — Saint Basil
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… — Frederic Bastiat
Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage;… — Georges Bataille
A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the… — Georges Bataille
I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction. — Georges Bataille
Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients. — Mario Batali
Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil… — Samuel Adams
The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority… — Samuel Adams
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same… — Charles Baudelaire
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering. — Charles Baudelaire
There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. — Charles Baudelaire
The world only goes round by misunderstanding. — Charles Baudelaire
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. — Charles Baudelaire
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. — Charles Baudelaire
To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. — Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to… — Charles Baudelaire

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