"I lack the peace of simple things. I……" — Wendell Berry

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• No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning… — Aneurin Bevan
• On Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of first responders heroically rushed to the scene and saved tens of thousands of lives.… — Michael Bloomberg
• I think it is nice for people to appreciate a slow-burning, beautiful story that makes you feel good when it… — Emily Blunt
• The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course… — Elizabeth Bowen
• Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody… — Geraldine Brooks
• A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes… — William S. Burroughs
• Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up… — George H. W. Bush
• God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding,… — Abraham Cahan

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