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| As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings. | Boris Pasternak | 1890-1960, Russian Poet, Novelist, Translator |
| Like swimming, riding, writing, or playing golf, happiness can be learned. | Boris Sokoloff | |
| It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. | Boris Yeltsin | 1931-, Russian President |
| I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating. | Boss Tweed | |
| To reason about love is to lose reason. | Boufflers | |
| The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. | Boufflers | |
| If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. | Bowen Baxter | |
| If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos. | Bowyer Bell | |
| If you have to be in a soap opera try not to get the worst role. | Boy George | British Rock Musician |
| Heartthrobs are a dime a dozen. | Brad Pitt | 1963-, American Actor |
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| It's fun being a kid. | Bradford Arthur Angier | |
| Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this? | Brady | |
| A full mind is an empty bat. | Branch Rickey | |
| Control over computing belongs with users. | Brandt Allen | American Academic |
| The hardest part has been maintaining a small head -- remaining down to earth. So many people try to make you more than you are. This business has changed a lot of good people and a lot of good families, and I don't want that to happen to me. | Brandy | 1979-, American Actress |
| It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come. | Brenda Ueland | 1891-1986, American Writer |
| I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| I am a daylight atheist. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| All publicity is good, except an obituary notice. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
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| There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. | Brendan F. Behan | 1923-1964, Irish Writer |
| Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. | Brendan Francis | |
| At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self. | Brendan Francis | |
| The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream? | Brendan Francis | |
| Not a shred of evidence exists in favour of the idea that life is serious. | Brendan Gill | |
| I like to think of myself as the Rutger Hauer of this show [Star Trek: The Next Generation]. But then I like to think of myself as Rutger Hauer in real life: strikingly handsome, irresistible to women, an intergalactic enigma. | Brent Spiner | 1960-, American Actor |
| The only sure thing about luck is that it will change. | Bret Harte | 1836-1902, American Writer |
| Never a lip is curved with pain That can't be kissed into smiles again. | Bret Harte | 1836-1902, American Writer |
| Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. | Brian Aldiss | 1925-, British Science Fiction Writer |
| You talk too much, you laugh too loud, that's the price of love. | Brian Ferry | |
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| It is not the literal past, the ''facts'' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. | Brian Friel | 1929-, Irish Playwright, Author |
| People with a culture of poverty suffer much less from repression than we of the middle class suffer and indeed, if I may make the suggestion with due qualification, they often have a hell of a lot more fun than we have. | Brian Friel | 1929-, Irish Playwright, Author |
| The opposite of love is not hate, the opposite of love is ignorance. | Brian Hwang | |
| A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman. | Brian Hwang | |
| Evil is something you recognize immediately you see it: it works through charm. | Brian Masters | |
| The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes. | Brian Moore | 1921-, Irish Novelist |
| There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play. | Brian Moore | 1921-, Irish Novelist |
| The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes. | Brian Moore | 1921-, Irish Novelist |
| Research is usually a policeman stopping a novel from progressing. | Brian Moore | 1921-, Irish Novelist |
| Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence. | Brian O'Shaugnessy | |
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| Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favour. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| When you engage in systematic, purposeful actin, using and stretching your abilities to the maximum, you cannot help but feel positive and confident abut yourself. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Decisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
| We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves. | Brian Tracy | American Trainer, Speaker, Author, Businessman |
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