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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and… — Ezra Taft Benson
When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father. I recall vividly how the… — Ezra Taft Benson
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next… — John Berger
A drawing is essentially a private work, related only to the artist's own needs; a 'finished' statue or canvas is essentially a public, presented work… — John Berger
Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with… — Peter L. Berger
I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them. — Michael Bergin
To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its own conquest. The greater the feeling of inferiority… — Alfred Adler
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is,… — Isaiah Berlin
We must never neglect the patient's own use of his symptoms. — Alfred Adler
No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness. — Georges Bernanos
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to… — Mortimer Adler
I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the… — Wendell Berry
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. — Annie Besant
My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home, has been devoted to one purpose, to give… — Annie Besant
We were an ill-matched pair, my husband and I, from the very outset; he, with very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's… — Annie Besant
You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences. — Stella Adler
You don't lie to your own doctor. You don't lie to your own attorney, and you don't lie to your employees. — Gordon Bethune
I'm really interested in fashion but at the same time I find it quite competitive. Second-hand stuff leaves you more open to whatever your own… — Sophie Ellis Bextor
The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom… — Vinoba Bhave
I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that… — Benazir Bhutto
In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man. — Joe Biden
Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means. — Theodor Adorno
Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the -… — Joe Biden
It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe… — Joe Biden

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