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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Barbara Ehrenreich

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. Barbara Ehrenreich

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Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. Ben Hecht

Time Circus Always Up Moving Moving Away Packing Away

Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host. Bernard Beckett

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Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. Bernard DeVoto

Wisdom Men Weak Nerves Give Only Name Pessimism

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter. Bernard Goldberg

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I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is. Bernardo Bertolucci

Life Ending Way Way Life Because Left Ambiguous

Sometimes you are in sync with the times, sometimes you are in advance, sometimes you are late. Bernardo Bertolucci

You Sometimes Late Sync Advance Times

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a return to poetry for me, or at least an attempt to create a poem. Bernardo Bertolucci

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I remember being young in the 1960s... we had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world. Bernardo Bertolucci

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I don't see my movies. I think it's healthier and safer to keep a bit of distance. I'm afraid to be disappointed. Bernardo Bertolucci

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Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords. Bernie Siegel

Patients want to be seen as people. For me, the person's life comes first; the disease is simply one aspect of it, which I can guide my patients to use as a redirection in their lives. When doctors look at their patients, however, they are trained to see only the disease. Bernie Siegel

Life is a miracle, and we need to not fear trying to achieve our potential and reveal the remarkable creation we and all living things are and that our Creator has built into us the ability to induce self-healing. Bernie Siegel

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You can survive tough situations and even turn them to your advantage by acting as if you are the person you want to be. When you act like that person, you can become that person. The hard parts are deciding whom you want to become, being willing to rehearse until you become that person, and forgiving yourself until you do. Bernie Siegel

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To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Beverley Nichols

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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive. Bharati Mukherjee

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If you drive to, say, Shenandoah National Park, or the Great Smoky Mountains, you'll get some appreciation for the scale and beauty of the outdoors. When you walk into it, then you see it in a completely different way. You discover it in a much slower, more majestic sort of way. Bill Bryson

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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time. Bill Bryson

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In a funny way, nothing makes you feel more like a native of your own country than to live where nearly everyone is not. Bill Bryson

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Nothing has ever moulded our conscience so strongly as our knowledge of what is good and what is evil. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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Watch over your child, as it struggles for breath on the outermost verge of life, or see your wife follow the child to that outermost verge, beside herself for anxiety and sleeplessness, - then love will teach you that life comes first. Bjornstjerne Bjornson

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