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• It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

  Chuck Berry

  Intention, Earnest

  Chuck Berry (1987). “Chuck Berry: The Autobiography”, Random House Value Publishing

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• What's the worst that can happen? If it doesn't do well I can put on my big girl panties, deal with it and move on.

  Halle Berry

  Girl, Moving, Panties

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• The man for me is the cherry on the pie. But I'm the pie and my pie is good all by itself. Even if I don't have a cherry.

  Halle Berry

  Relationship, Love Yourself, Men

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• We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if we offend gravely enough against what we know to be true, as by failing badly enough to deal affectionately and responsibly with our land and our neighbors, truth will retaliate with ugliness, poverty, and disease.

  Wendell Berry

  Land, Disease, Poverty

  Wendell Berry (2012). “It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture & Other Essays”, p.27, Counterpoint Press

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• If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.

  Wendell Berry

  Responsibility, Needs, Welfare

  Wendell Berry (2010). “Bringing It to the Table: On Farming and Food (Large Print 16pt)”, p.10, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Inspiring, Thinking, Silent

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• A people can prosper under a very bad government and suffer under a very good one, if in the first case the local administration is effective and in the second it is inefficient.

  Annie Besant

  Government, People, Suffering

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the only forms in which intelligence could clothe itself.

  Annie Besant

  Space, Earth, Void

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.348, Jazzybee Verlag

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• This Old Testament - containing error, folly, absurdity and immorality - is by English statute law declared to be of divine authority, a blasphemy - if there were anyone to be blasphemed - blacker and more insolent than any word ever written or penned by the most hotheaded Freethinker.

  Annie Besant

  Errors, Law, Old Testament

  Annie Besant (2014). “The Christian Creed: Or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny”, p.56, The Floating Press

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• The Tories, every election, must have a bogy man. If you haven't got a programme, a bogy man will do.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Political, Politics

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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Sympathy, War, Alive

  Speech in the House of Commons, 30 April (1946)

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• The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk to you. It just works.

  Jeff Bezos

  Educational, Persistence, Needs

  "Managing Human Resources". Book by Susan Jackson, p. 6, June 16, 2011.

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• If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Educational, Waiting

  "America's Best Leaders: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO". Interview with David LaGesse, www.usnews.com. November 19, 2008.

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• There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

  Jeff Bezos

  Skills, Two, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think that you can invent on behalf of customers unless you're willing to think long-term, because a lot of invention doesn't work. If you're going to invent, it means you're going to experiment, and if you're going to experiment, you're going to fail, and if you're going to fail, you have to think long term.

  Jeff Bezos

  Mean, Thinking, Long

  "Jeff Bezos explains why Amazon doesn’t really care about its competitors". www.geekwire.com. September 17, 2013.

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• The river flows at its own sweet will, but the flood is bound in the two banks. If it were not thus bound, its freedom would be wasted.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Sweet, Two, Rivers

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• In nonviolence you must go full steam ahead, if you want the good to come speedily you must go about it with vigor.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Want, Vigor, Steam

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• If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.

  Jello Biafra

  Evolution, Outlaw, Evolve

  "If Evolution is Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Evolve". Album by Jello Biafra, October 27, 1998.

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• What I'm getting at is, you know, if we really want to get serious about helping all the people living in the street and getting people jobs, we could just hire half the people in the country to spy on the other half.

  Jello Biafra

  Country, Jobs, People

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• Cheryl Cole and Katy Perry are two of the hottest girls in the world - and so normal and funny with it. If I was a few years older they are the kind of girls I'd like to date. I want a younger version of Cheryl and Katy - a mixture of the two would be hot.

  Justin Bieber

  Funny, Girl, Years

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• Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Doubt, Denial, May

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• Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Lying, Sadness, People

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It becomes more necessary to see the truth as it is if you realize that the only vehicle for change are these people who have lost their personality.

  Steven Biko

  People, Personality, Realizing

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• As a good horse is not very apt to jump over a bank, if left to guide himself, I let mine pick his own way.

  Buffalo Bill

  Horse, Way, Guides

  Buffalo Bill (1939). “Life and Adventures of "Buffalo Bill."”, Ayer Company Pub

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