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| The act of sex, gratifying as it may be, is God's joke on humanity. It is man's last desperate stand at superintendency. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. | Bette Davis | 1908-1989, American Actress, Producer |
| Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, ''I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice?'' | Bette Midler | American Singer, Entertainer, Actress |
| It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. | Bette Midler | American Singer, Entertainer, Actress |
| I wouldn't say I invented tack, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity. | Bette Midler | American Singer, Entertainer, Actress |
| I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.'' I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot. | Bette Midler | American Singer, Entertainer, Actress |
| Fashions are born and they die too quickly for anyone to learn to love them. | Bettina Ballard | American Writer |
| Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death. | Betty Bender | |
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| It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbours for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive. | Betty Friedan | 1921-, American Feminist Writer |
| The woman's vision is deep reaching, the man's far reaching. With the man the world is his heart, with the woman the heart is her world. | Betty Grable | |
| I have got two reasons for success and I'm standing on both of them. | Betty Grable | |
| Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor. | Beverley Baxter | |
| Now, as always, the most automated appliance in a household is the mother. | Beverly Jones | 1927-, American Feminist Writer |
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| Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. | Beverly Jones | 1927-, American Feminist Writer |
| Art is the signature of civilizations. | Beverly Sills | American Opera Singer |
| You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. | Beverly Sills | American Opera Singer |
| There is a growing strength in women, but it's in the forehead, not in the forearm. | Beverly Sills | American Opera Singer |
| Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| The non permanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of summer and winter seasons. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Whatever you do, make it an offering to me -- the food you eat, the sacrifices you make, the help you give, even your suffering. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Those who consciousness is unified abandon all attachment to the results of action and attain supreme peace. But those whose desires are fragmented, who are selfishly attached to the results of their work, are bound in everything they do. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
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| Even as a tortoise draws in its limbs, the wise can draw in their senses at will. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| A man's own self is his friend. A man's own self is his foe. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| But they for whom I am the supreme goal, who do all work renouncing self for me and meditate on me with single-hearted devotion, these I will swiftly rescue from death's vast sea, for their consciousness has entered into me. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| It is better to do thine own duty, however lacking in merit, than to do that of another, even though efficiently. It is better to die doing one's own duty, for to do the duty of another is fraught with danger. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| On this path effort never goes to waste, and there is no failure. Even a little effort toward spiritual awareness will protect you from the greatest fear. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| When the senses contact sense objects, a person experiences cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting they come and go. Bear them patiently. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Governing sense, mind and intellect, intent on liberation, free from desire, fear and anger, the sage is forever free. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
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| Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart -- a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water -- I accept with joy. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| For one who has been honoured, dishonour is worse than death. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Offer unto me that which is very dear to thee -- which thou holdest most covetable. Infinite are the results of such an offering. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| He is not elevated by good fortune or depressed by bad. His mind is established in God, and he is free from delusion. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| The disunited mind is far from wise; how can it meditate? How be at peace? When you know no peace, how can you know joy? | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
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