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• But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and baffled, get up and begin again.

  Robert Browning

  Fall, Eye, Laughing

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.241, Wordsworth Editions

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• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

  Robert Browning

  Life, Fate, Trying

  Robert Browning (1994). “The Works of Robert Browning”, p.442, Wordsworth Editions

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• If I told you all the people that have secretly told me I've influenced them, you'd never believe it, and you'll never see it in print, either.

  Dave Brubeck

  Believe, People, Print

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• If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses.

  Lenny Bruce

  Jesus, Children, School

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• If you can take the hot lead enema, then you can cast the first stone.

  Lenny Bruce

  Stones, Firsts, Hot

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• I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

  Jerry Bruckheimer

  Real, Mean, Blow

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. Ocotber 15, 2003.

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Pain, Unhappy

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• One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Wretched

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and having fun. That 'sex symbol' thing is typically part of being in the limelight. You better be very talented in your music, but it's good to be nice to look at, I guess.

  Luke Bryan

  Sexy, Fun, Nice

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• If there are people out by the bus, I'll come off the bus and sign autographs, too. I always want to be accessible. I always tell my fans, 'If I ever get on the bus and don't come off, it's because I'm under the weather or I'm really tired.'

  Luke Bryan

  Tired, Weather, People

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• You know, if Kelly Clarkson wants to do country albums because that’s what inspires her, then let her do it. Look at Kanye West or Ludacris ... they aren’t rappin’ and cussin’ like they were on their first few albums, so what does that make them? It’s all in the eye of the beholder and the listener. We all use our outlet to grow ourself.

  Luke Bryan

  Country, Eye, Inspire

  "Luke Bryan Laughs Off Country Music Stereotypes, Talks Growing Popularity Of Genre". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2013.

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• Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Country, Spring, Cities

  Democratic National Convention Address, originally delivered 8 July 1896 and later recorded in studio

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• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  Bear Bryant

  Sports, Hurt, Team

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• If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.

  Arnold Bennett

  Mean, Self, Aquariums

  Arnold Bennett (2012). “How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine”, p.108, Courier Corporation

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• I mean there's still also an element of the audience looking for role models. In my day, when I started, if you were an action hero, you were a little bit of a role model like the person.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Hero, Mean, Role Models

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Self Esteem, Numbers, Achievement

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• You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

  John Berger

  Events, Plans, According To Plan

  John Berger (1972). “Selected Essays and Articles: The Look of Things”

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• Painting is something that you need to do, if not every day, then certainly most days. It is almost like being a pianist: if you stop, you lose something.

  John Berger

  Needs, Painting, Pianist

  "John Berger: a life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. April 22, 2011.

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• A situation is always comic if it participates simultaneously in two series of events which are absolutely independent of each other, and if it can be interpreted in two quite different meanings.

  Henri Bergson

  Independent, Two, Different

  Henri Bergson (2013). “Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.'

  Elizabeth Berkley

  Girl, Answers, Feels

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• I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

  Milton Berle

  Love, Inspiring, Encouraging

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  If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Mothers Day, Hilarious

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• If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy's greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.

  Ben Bernanke

  Long, Focus, Employment

  "Hearing Regarding Ben Bernanke's Nomination to Be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve". www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2005.

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• A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.

  Eric Berne

  Inspirational, Failure, Winning

  Eric Berne (2010). “What Do You Say After You Say Hello”, p.235, Random House

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• If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

  Andrew Bernstein

  Stress, Successful, Succeed

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