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Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.
Lies and Lying
Elizabeth Bowen

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Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.
Lovers
Elizabeth Bowen

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Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.
Growth
Elizabeth Bowen

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To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
Health
Francis Bowen

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The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement.
Government
Count Boytzwnburg

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Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.
Facts
Fogg Brackell

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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Manners
Malcolm Bradbury

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First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down.
Fear
Ray Bradbury

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I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it.
The future
Ray Bradbury

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Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down
Risk
Ray Bradbury

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Books - Reading
Ray Bradbury

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
Courage
Ray Bradbury

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In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small matters, as they are.
Integrity
Gamaliel Bradford

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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
Pain
Bill Bradley

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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
Virtue
Francis H. Bradley

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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
Optimism
Francis H. Bradley

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Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst.
Anxiety
Francis H. Bradley

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Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
Courage
Omar Bradley

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We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
Vision
Omar Nelson Bradley

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What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
Confidence
Terry Bradshaw

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If ever two were one, then surely we. If ever man were loved by wife, then thee.
Wives
Anne Bradstreet

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There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford.
Grace
John Braford

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Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.
Friends and Friendship
Kenneth Branagh

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
Mind
Dorothea Brande

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The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.
Problems
Dorothea Brande

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun