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We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown. — William Booth
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just… — Jorge Luis Borges
Those who made and endorsed our Constitution knew man's nature, and it is to their ideas, rather than to the temptations of utopia, that we… — Robert Bork
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict… — Max Born
Our nation's military and law enforcement personal work hard to protect us. We must thank them for their continued vigilance. Without their sacrifice we would… — Leonard Boswell
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these… — Alain de Botton
I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas. — Alain de Botton
A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than… — Anatoli Boukreev
False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee
A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination. — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that… — Christian Nestell Bovee
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
In ambition, as in love, the successful can afford to be indulgent toward their rivals. The prize our own, it is graceful to recognize the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more… — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are minor in everything but our passions. — Elizabeth Bowen
Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't. — Elizabeth Bowen
I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas. — Christina Aguilera
The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and… — David Bowie
Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes. — Barbara Boxer
If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest,… — Barbara Boxer
America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that… — Allen Boyd

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