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• Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by… — James A. Baldwin
• I'm walking this walk, and my life has nothing to do with my perception of the world. It's all God!… — Stephen Baldwin
• Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. — Dave Barry
• I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone… — Drew Barrymore
• Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire
• In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or… — Michael Behe
• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter,… — Pope Benedict XVI
• Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of… — Arnold Bennett
• Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. — Corrie Ten Boom
• Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic… — Andrea Bocelli
• This kind of overall way of thinking is not only a fertile source of new theoretical ideas: it is needed… — David Bohm
• A corporation is organized as a system - it has this department, that department, that department... they don't have any… — David Bohm

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