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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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• If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Happiness, Baseball

  Yogi: It Ain't Over (1989)

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• I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Baseball

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• If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Hilarious, Sports

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Isms

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• If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Change, Sports

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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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• When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

  Halle Berry

  Mother, Kids, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.

  Halle Berry

  Real, Giving, Work Out

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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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• If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins.

  Wendell Berry

  Humble, Cutting, Boys

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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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• Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

  Annie Besant

  Race, Growth, Foundation

  ANNIE BESANT (1911). “THE IMMEDIATE FUTURE”

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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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• Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.

  John Betjeman

  Happiness, Laughter, Giving

  John Betjeman (2005). “Faith and Doubt of John Betjeman: An Anthology of Betjeman's Religious Verse”, p.53, A&C Black

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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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• Not all my shoes are designer. In terms of clothes, everything is on the same level for me. If I like it, it doesn't matter if it cost £200 or £2. I'm attracted to things rather than labels.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Shoes, Clothes, Labels

  "The close-up". Interview with Imogen Fox, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2007.

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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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• Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

  Jeff Bezos

  Business, Opportunity, Thinking

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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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• If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

  Vinoba Bhave

  Motivational, Fitness, Exercise

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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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• 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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• I do believe babies are born potty-trained. They're born knowing and are able to give subtle signals that become very prominent if you reinforce them.

  Mayim Bialik

  Baby, Believe, Knowing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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