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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which diffuses about it…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart.
— Ingrid Bergman
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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
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To perceive means to immobilize... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
— Henri Bergson
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In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which…
— Henri Bergson
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A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can…
— Henri Bergson
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The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
— George Berkeley
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame of the world - have…
— George Berkeley
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Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which…
— Elizabeth Berkley
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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
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand…
— Alfred Adler
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
— Georges Bernanos
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A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at…
— Georges Bernanos
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A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes.
— Claude Bernard
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We need to distinguish between stress and stimulation. Having deadlines, setting goals, and pushing yourself to perform at capacity are stimulating. Stress is when you're…
— Andrew Bernstein
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You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let…
— Mortimer Adler
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In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names.
— Mortimer Adler
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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
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