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• My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.

  Richie Benaud

  Brain, Add, Gears

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Mr. Einstein doesn't like the natural laws of the universe, let him go back to where he came from.

  Robert Benchley

  Law, Comedy, Natural

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• If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Office, Realizing, Pope

  "Pope says in book he would resign if incapacitated". www.reuters.com. November 22, 2010.

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• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Matter, Today

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• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

  Roberto Benigni

  Corn, Fields, Saws

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

  Tony Benn

  Years, Library, Paper

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• If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

  Alan Bennett

  Flower, Thinking, Squash

  Alan Bennett (2010). “The Complete Talking Heads”, p.56, Macmillan

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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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• Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

  Arnold Bennett

  Hope, Media, Long

  The Title (1918) act 2

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• Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Life, Motivational, Choices Made

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• People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

  A. C. Benson

  Inspirational, Helping Others, People

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• Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible, but in that order.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Order, Easy

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we truly seek to put away sin, we must first look to Him who is the Author of our salvation.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Meaningful, Jesus, Firsts

  "A Mighty Change of Heart". Ezra Taft Benson's First Presidency Message, www.lds.org. October 1989.

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• I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Book, Home

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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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• There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a garden in your yard and a fruit tree or two. Those families will be fortunate who, in the last days, have an adequate supply of food because of their foresight and ability to produce their own.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Garden, Blessing, Two

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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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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• Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

  Peter L. Berger

  Compare, Prerogative

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• The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men's apples and head their cabbages.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Nature, Thinking, Men

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• We must believe then, that as from hence we see Saturn and Jupiter; if we were in either of the Two, we should discover a great many Worlds which we perceive not; and that the Universe extends so in infinitum.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Believe, Two, Jupiter

  Cyrano de Bergerac (2015). “A Voyage to the Moon: Souls Needed for You”, p.18, 谷月社

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• I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Motivational, Regret, People

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

  Ingrid Bergman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Breathing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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