#ness

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I resent the fact that people in places like Boston, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco believe that they should be able to tell us how to live our lives, operate our businesses, and what to do with the land that we love and cherish.


Wilford Brimley


#angeles #believe #boston #businesses #cherish

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.


Sergey Brin


#back #because #bit #buy #car

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.


Harold Brodkey


#alert #am #aware #bestows #contentment

In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.


Xun Zi


#bad #being #controlled #corrected #kings

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.


Harold Brodkey


#darkness #enter #form #funeral #like

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.


Joseph Brodsky


#beauty #cities #everything #i #king

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract.


Tom Brokaw


#contract #fickle #good #i #length

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.


Anita Brookner


#around #ball #ball game #business #exciting

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.


Anita Brookner


#after #become #beginning #essence #impossibility

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.


Xun Zi


#caused #evil #goodness #human #human nature