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For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. — John Berger
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never… — Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
I was adopting an Ethiopian child, that's not true. My house was haunted, that wasn't true. God, there's been so many rumours. — Adele
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. — Saul Bellow
In many ways I wish I wasn't an actor dragging around the baggage from being one so that I could just devote my energies to… — Dirk Benedict
Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true. — Arnold Bennett
The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have… — Warren G. Bennis
The fellowship of true friends who can hear you out, share your joys, help carry your burdens, and correctly counsel you is priceless. — Ezra Taft Benson
Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan. — Ezra Taft Benson
True solidarity is only possible among the solitary. — Jose Bergamin
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and… — Ben Bernanke
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. — Yogi Berra
Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why true love is… — Mortimer Adler
We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if… — Wendell Berry
The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from the illumination of true knowledge,… — Annie Besant
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is… — Annie Besant
The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the endeavour… — Annie Besant

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