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The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Nature
Francis Bacon

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A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.
Politicians and Politics
Walter Bagehot

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A princely marriage is the brilliant edition of a universal fact, and, as such, it rivets mankind.
Weddings
Walter Bagehot

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An inability to stay quiet is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.
Silence
Walter Bagehot

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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Innovation
Walter Bagehot

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Right human relations is the only true peace.
Peace
Alice A. Bailey

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Art is man's nature: Nature is God's art.
Nature
Philip James Bailey

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He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship.
Indecision
Kenneth Baker

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The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.
Learning
Newton D. Baker

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The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.
Goals
Russell (Wayne) Baker

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It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
Persecution
James Baldwin

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When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?
Inequality
John Ball

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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Zeal
Hosea Ballou

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A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.
Marriage
Honore De Balzac

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All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Emotions
Honore De Balzac

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I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
Investments
Honore De Balzac

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Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation.
Manners
Honore De Balzac

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Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
Passion
Honore De Balzac

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I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
Tallulah Bankhead

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The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Determination
Roger Bannister

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An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor.
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Alvan L. Barach

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Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives.
Freedom
John Barbour

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People tend to remember my performances, not me.
Memory
Ellen Barkin

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Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.
Resignation
Natalie Clifford Barney

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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue
Leisure
Natalie Clifford Barney

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