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I started composting in 1970 by taking my food scraps out behind where I lived and burying them in a hole next to the railroad… — Ed Begley, Jr.
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you. — Brendan Behan
History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided. — Konrad Adenauer
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. — Robert Benchley
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born. — Robert Benchley
Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure. — Tony Benn
I keep telling myself to calm down, to take less of an interest in things and not to get so excited, but I still care… — Kate Adie
Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right. — Warren G. Bennis
Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things, not at the periphery. — Warren G. Bennis
Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them. — Warren G. Bennis
When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and… — Diane Abbott
Satan knows that youth is the springtime of life when all things are new and young people are most vulnerable. — Ezra Taft Benson
When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives. — Ezra Taft Benson
The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life. — John Berger
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy… — Gael Garcia Bernal
A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe.… — Gael Garcia Bernal
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. — Georges Bernanos
In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective… — Claude Bernard
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time. — Leonard Bernstein

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