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• Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language.

  Joseph Brodsky

  World, Yardsticks, Language

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• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Broken, Magic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Life, Inspire, Dying

  Simone de Beauvoir (2011). “The Ethics of Ambiguity”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• If you live long enough, you'll see that every victory turns into a defeat.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  War, Long, Victory

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  Beck

  Judgment, Knows

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• What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, Responsibility, Pay The Price

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• The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?'

  Glenn Beck

  Mean, President, Would Be

  "The Glenn Beck Program" (Premiere Radio Networks), January 12, 2009.

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• What is the point of competing for a trophy if everyone gets a trophy?

  Glenn Beck

  Trophies, Competing

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• If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop.

  Glenn Beck

  Justice, Bishops, Pushing

  Interview with Gary Kopycinski, enewspf.com. March 15, 2010.

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• No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

  Glenn Beck

  Believe, Way, Should

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• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

  Glenn Beck

  Lying, Believe, Character

  "Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.

  Glenn Beck

  Running, Communication, Justice

  "Outraged by Glenn Beck's Salvo, Christians Fire Back" by Laurie Goodstein, www.nytimes.com. March 11, 2010.

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• I was one of the hardest-hitting conservatives on George W. Bush. Republicans didn't like me on George W. Bush. Republicans still don't like me on many things. If any Republican thinks I've been hard on Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich or any of these guys, wait until Mitt Romney gets into office. I'll hold his feet to the fire just as much.

  Glenn Beck

  Thinking, Fire, Feet

  "Glenn Beck drops his name from Web network, promises media 'revolution'" by Steve Krakauer, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2012.

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• I wasn't just pro-choice, I was pro-everything, until I started taking everything off the table and began looking at things and asking if this view was consistent with that view.

  Glenn Beck

  Views, Choices, Asking

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• We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

  Joko Beck

  Blessing, Thinking, Errors

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• Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

  Martha Beck

  Eye, Oxygen, Feelings

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• If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things. Otherwise, stop fixating on stuff you can touch and start caring about stuff that touches you.

  Martha Beck

  Memories, Caring, Touching

  "Stop Worrying! Anxiety-Busting Advice from Martha Beck" by Martha Beck, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2012.

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• To live a life that is wrong for you is a form of dying. There are people who have lives that look perfect. They try to be happy, they believe they should be happy, they are trying to like it, but if it's off course from their north star, they aren't satisfied.

  Martha Beck

  Stars, Believe, People

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• If you want to end your isolation, you must be honest about what you want at a core level and decide to go after it.

  Martha Beck

  Levels, Want, Honest

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• My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind.

  Martha Beck

  Jobs, Thinking, Nuts

  "Secret to finding unexpected miracles" by Martha Beck, www.cnn.com. November 30, 2010.

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  If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

  Samuel Beckett

  Love, Love You

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Collected Poems in English and French”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  Samuel Beckett

  Use, Body, Window

  Malone Dies (1958) p. 44

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• My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.

  David Beckham

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

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• Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

  David Beckham

  Inspirational, Sports, Passion

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• I want my kids to have a good work ethic. I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.

  Victoria Beckham

  Believe, Hard Work, Kids

  "Victoria Beckham is ELLE’s March cover star". www.elle.com. January 29, 2013.

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