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What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?

Erma Bombeck

Men, Hair, Growing

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I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

Erma Bombeck

Giving, Funeral, May

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

God, Atheist, Religion

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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Motivational, Done, Want

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Many are attracted to social service - the rewards are immediate, the gratification quick. But if we have social justice, we won't need social service.

Julian Bond

Umpires, Justice, Needs

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If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Sad, Running, Depressing

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Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.

Bono

Brother, Distance, Unity

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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We're standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

Bono

Fire, Flames, Needs

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I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.

Bono

Artist, Thinking, Cracks

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If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Bono

Music, Song, Inspire

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Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't interested in the world around them. I'm always chasing that.

Bono

Artist, Technology, Thinking

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Studies have shown that 90% of error in thinking is due to error in perception. If you can change your perception, you can change your emotion and this can lead to new ideas.

Edward de Bono

Optimistic, Thinking, Errors

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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Edward de Bono

Believe, School, Data

Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Edward de Bono

Cost, Strive, Be Prepared

Edward De Bono (1992). “Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas”, Harpercollins

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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Edward de Bono

Children, Giving, May

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People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.

Katherine Boo

Long, People, Temptation

"The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.

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I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

Elayne Boosler

Basketball, Years, Games

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I deliver very traditionally, and people aren't threatened. I think if I cursed or seemed wilder, I couldn't get away with the amount of very opinionated politics I get away with.

Elayne Boosler

Thinking, People, Get Away

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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

Victor Borge

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

Hal Borland

Strength, Patience, Tree

Hal Borland (2014). “Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country”, p.77, Open Road Media

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A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.

Hal Borland

Beautiful, Block, Lying

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If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

Max Born

Order, Perfect, Needs

Max Born (2013). “Physics in My Generation”, p.63, Springer

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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Phyllis Bottome

Change, People, Outsiders

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To the extent I am known, I think I am known as a person who expresses his opinion freely about things - and I was sensitive to the possibility that if I was seen taking money for saying nice things about a product, my comments and choices and opinions would become, understandably, suspect.

Anthony Bourdain

Nice, Thinking, Choices

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Don't dunk your nigiri in the soy sauce. Don't mix your wasabi in the soy sauce. If the rice is good, complement your sushi chef on the rice.

Anthony Bourdain

Soy Sauce, Sushi, Chef

"Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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