"It is madness to make fortune the mistress……" — John Dryden

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• The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be… — Hannah Arendt
• You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. — Marcus Aurelius
• Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought… — Marcus Aurelius
• There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn… — Richard Bach
• Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to… — Richard Bach
• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a… — Gaston Bachelard
• Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do… — Michelle Bachelet
• All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a… — David Bailey
• It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name… — Nicholson Baker
• Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the… — Russell Baker
• Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also… — Javier Bardem
• Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly… — Amelia Barr

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