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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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But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
— Honore de Balzac
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part…
— Honore de Balzac
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
— Edward Abbey
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other…
— Russell Banks
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your…
— Russell Banks
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I'm trying to build a strong business. I want to create new stars, new shows and new products for my audience and create a legacy…
— Tyra Banks
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Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model…
— Tyra Banks
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A rich man told me recently that a liberal is a man who tells other people what to do with their money.
— Amiri Baraka
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When I was born, there was a very isolated idea of what it meant to be a man or a woman, and you belonged to…
— Javier Bardem
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Imagine the situation between Israel and Palestine. It's such a big mess. You can be on one side or the other. But what's clear is…
— Javier Bardem
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Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your work is worse…
— Javier Bardem
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If I go to a restaurant, other people stare. The meal is ruined.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
— Clive Barker
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I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.
— Travis Barker
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If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they…
— Charles Barkley
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The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are…
— Henry Adams
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
— John Perry Barlow
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I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was…
— Ben Barnes
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The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
— Djuna Barnes
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This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form…
— Amelia Barr
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you know, all my stuff kind…
— Roseanne Barr
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There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.
— James Truslow Adams
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
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