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I’ve come to the realisation that I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing half the time.
David Bowie1947–2016“Sermon From the Savoy”, New Musical Express (29 September 1984)
Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Meadow (1947), originally a radio play for the World Security Workshop
God gives us dreadful gifts. The most dreadful of all is memory.
Ray Bradbury1920–2012The Wish (p. 172)
The more sensitive you are, the more likely you are to be brutalized, develop scabs and never evolve. Never allow yourself to feel anything because you always feel too much.
Marlon Brando1924–2004
Would people applaud me if I was a good plumber?
Marlon Brando1924–2004
Privacy is not something that I’m merely entitled to, it’s an absolute prerequisite.
Marlon Brando1924–2004Said in 1960, quoted in Marlon Brando, Ch. 11 (1974, rev. 1989), by David Shipman.
Those who adhere to the past won’t be able to cope with the future.
Willy Brandt1913–1992Speech at the extraordinary SPD party convention (18 November 1971)
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Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.
NBNachman of Bratslav
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
JBJacob Braude
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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956Posthumous publication
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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall⁠—think of it, always.
JBJohn Briley1925–2019Often credited to Mahatma Gandhi
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
Charlotte Brontë1816–1855Jane Eyre (1847), Chapter IIn context
Any new system is worth trying when your luck is bad.
Heywood Broun1888–1939
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
Sam Brownborn 1943The Washington Post (26 January 1977)
Progress is
The law of life: man is not Man as yet.
Robert Browning1812–1889Paracelsus (1835), Part 5.
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