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• "It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about."
  - Simon Barnes Writing in The Times about the infamous boot incident between David Beckham and Sir Alex Ferguson, 01/09/03.



• I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the long wait in the dark once I arrive at my destination.
  - Marc Beland



• The paradox about paradoxes is that they themselves are not paradoxical.
  - John Berndt



• "Nobody goes there anymore - it's too crowded."
  - Yogi Berra (American baseball player and manager), referring to a popular restuarant.



• "Anybody who can't hear the difference between a ball hitting wood & a ball hitting concrete must be blind.
  - Yogi Berra (American baseball player and manager)



• "Les utopies apparaissent comme bien plus réalisables qu'on ne le croyait autrefois. Et nous nous trouvons actuellement devant une question bien autrement angoissant: Comment éviter leurs réalisation définitive?...Les utopies sont réalisables. La vie marche vers les utopies. Et peut-être un siècle nouveau commence-t-il, un siècle où les intellectuels et la classe cultivée rêveront au moyens d'éviter les utopies et de retourner a une société non utopique, moins 'parfaite' et plus libre."
  - Nicolas Berdiaeff . This quotation appears as a preface to Aldous Huxley's "Brave New Word."
  


• "Time is a great teacher. Unfortunately, it kills all its pupils."
  - Hector Louis Berlioz (French composer 1803-69)
  


• Abstainer -- a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
  - Ambrose Bierce (American journalist and writer. 1842-?1914), The Devil's Dictionary, 1906.
  


• "Today is not a time for soundbites...But I feel that the hand of history is on our shoulder."
  - Tony Blair (British Prime Minister. 1953- ), standing on the steps of Hillsborough Castle, having arrived to try and rescue the Good Friday Agreement (1998).
  


• It was mentioned on CNN that the new prime number discovered recently is four times bigger than the previous record.
  - John Blasik
  


• Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
  - Pierre Boutroux
  


• What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?
  - Bertolt Brecht (German dramatist. 1898-1956)
  



• "Terribe is the temptation to be good."
  - Bertolt Brecht , The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1948).
  



• "The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit on infinite error."
  - Bertolt Brecht , The Life of Galileo (1939) sc. 9.
  



• "Because I don't trust him, we are friends."
  - Bertolt Brecht , Mother Courage (1939) sc. 3.
  



• "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp,
  Or what's a heaven for?"
  - Robert Browning (English Poet. 1812-89), Andrea del Sarto (1855) L. 97.
  


• "I'm still an atheist, thank God."
  - Luis Buñuel (Spanish film director. 1900 - 83)
  



• I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and energy on teaching children to read and having an education system that's responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system that refuses to change, will make America what we want it to be a literate country and a hopefuller country.
  - George W. Bush (US President. 1946-)
  



• The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country.
  - George W. Bush
  



• If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
  - George W. Bush
  



• One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
  - George W. Bush
  



• I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
  - George W. Bush
  



• The future will be better tomorrow.
  - George W. Bush
  



• We're going to have the best educated American people in the world.
  - George W. Bush
  



• I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.
  - George W. Bush
  



• We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.
  - George W. Bush
  



• Public speaking is very easy.
  - George W. Bush
  



• A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
  - George W. Bush
  



• We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.
  - George W. Bush
  



• Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.
  - George W. Bush
  



• It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
  - George W. Bush
  



• It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
  - George W. Bush
  

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