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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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• We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Humor, Television Watching

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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 don't know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Success

  "Yogi Berra, baseball Hall of Famer and New York Yankees catcher, dies at 90" by Alan Evans, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2015.

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• You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you are going, because you might not get there.

  Yogi Berra

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All". Book by Yogi Berra, 2003.

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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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• 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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• The other teams could make trouble for us if they win.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Motivational, Baseball

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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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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• You have to get the audience invested even if you're doing something that they think is dumb, it's kind of what these movies are all about.

  Halle Berry

  Stupid, Thinking, Dumb

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• If you're of multiple races, you have a different challenge, a unique challenge of embracing all of who you are but still finding a way to identify yourself and I think that's often hard for us to do.

  Halle Berry

  Unique, Thinking, Race

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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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• 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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• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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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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• If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Online Extra: Jeff Bezos on Word-of-Mouth Power". Interview with Robert D. Hof, www.bloomberg.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

  Jeff Bezos

  Inspirational, Believe, Misunderstood

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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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• 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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