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~~ I am not the author of the following written material, and I lay no claim to be the author. ~~


901. Bury me on my face, said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.

902. Buses stop at bus stations, trains at train stations, my desk has a work station.

903. BUSH natural; more hair than wit.

904. Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. -- Anonymous

905. Business despatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.

906. Business is business.

907. Business is like a wheelbarrow. Nothing ever happens until you start pushing.

908. Business is like riding a bicycle. Either you keep moving or you fall down. John D. Wright

909. Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching for what it gets.

910. Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail.

911. But all in good time.

912. But all through life I see a Cross ---Where sons of God yield up their breath; ---There is no gain except by loss, ---There is no life except by death, ---And no full vision but by Faith, ---Nor glory, but by bearing shame, ---Nor justice, but by taking blame; ---And that Eternal Passion saith: ---Be emptied of glory, right and name. ---(WALTER C. SMITH).

913. But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow.... Like a Coach and six--the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. -- John Quincy Adams

914. But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see; And where, tho' all things differ, all agree.

915. But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state?

916. But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, For gentle ways are best, and keep aloof From sharp contentions.

917. But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

918. But even with instinctive sincerity, action must be in accord with the will of heaven.

919. But fate ordains that dearest friends must part.

920. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

921. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine. --Thomas Jefferson

922. But happy they, the happiest of their kind! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their Hearts, their Fortunes, and their Beings blend.

923. But he is like some rock which stretches into the vast sea and which, exposed to the fury of the winds and beaten against by the waves, endures all the violence and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

924. But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

925. But he's so annoying.Holy this and holy that...

926. But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

927. But I gotta die first, please God send me on my way!

928. But I have always liked bird dogs better than kennel-fed dogs myself--you know, one that will get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

929. But if you quell your own anger, Your real enemy will be slain.

930. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. --Abraham Lincoln

931. But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses.

932. But in the case of human beings, friendship is a transitory art, subject to discontinuance without further notice.

933. But in the times that are coming, one of the things we don't need is for is for anyone to name the Heir to Hastur in comtempt as a lover of men.' 'And if I am, sir?'

934. But isn't hate just scorned love?

935. But knowledge itself is not Power. Wisdom is Power; and her Prime Minister is Justice, which is the perfected law of Truth.

936. But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

937. But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

938. But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream. --Amos :

939. But let me silent be: For silence is the speech of love, The music of the sphere above.

940. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is ; many persons strive for high ideals and everywhere life is full of heroism.

941. But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet Lessen like sound of friends' departing feet; And Death is beautiful as feet of friend Coming with welcome at our journey's end.

942. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. --H.D. Thoreau

943. But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement.For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.

944. But love is many things, none of them logical.--The Princess Bride by William Goldman

945. But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. --Ernest Hemingway

946. But may she still be alive till everyones sick at the sight (Pedar O Doirin) ---Irish Curse

947. But noble souls, through dust and heat; Rise from disaster and defeat; The stronger.

948. But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor.

949. But over all things brooding slept The quiet sense of something lost.

950. But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn,feel, change, grow, love...live. Chained by his certitudes, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom.

951. But Satan now is wiser than of yore, And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

952. But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences. --John Stuart Mill

953. But statistically it is possible

954. But the child's sob in the silence curses deeper Than the strong man in his wrath. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning English poet

955. But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

956. But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust.

957. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

958. But the lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell. (Orson Scott Card)

959. But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right; Things have been mended that were worse, And the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

960. But the superior man stands up to fate, endures resolutely in his inner certainty of final success, and bides his time until the onset of reassuring odds.

961. But the time has come when all things shall pass.

962. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according to nature. Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature, they being both servants of his providence: art is the perfection of nature; were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos; nature hath made one world, and art another.

963. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death.

964. But Thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent, Is man, - arrayed for mutual slaughter, - Yes Carnage is Thy daughter.

965. But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, We will work for ourself and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen.

966. But true love is a durable fire In the mind ever burning; Never sick, never old, never dead; From itself never turning

967. But what ... is it good for?

968. But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? -- Albert Camus

969. But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

970. But what the hell is this world coming to

971. But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind.

972. But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

973. But when the Creative acts upon the Receptive, its energy is gathered up and set to work.

974. But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.-- Byron

975. But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own.

976. Butcher's window: Let me meat your needs.

977. Butter is gold in the morning, silver at noon, and lead at night.

978. Butter is mad twice a year. (When very hard or very soft.)

979. Butterflies. If you throw it.

980. Buy at a fair but sell at home.

981. Buy land - they've stopped making it.

982. Buy old masters. They fetch a better price than old mistresses.

983. Buying a lie is one thing, giving it away for free is quite another.

984. Buying on trust is the way to pay double. --Anonymous

985. By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

986. By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go. -- John Powell

987. By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'llbecome a philosopher.

988. By all means use some time to be alone.

989. By All Resources Realize Yourself...

990. By annihilating the desires, you annihilate the mind. Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act. --Claude Adrien Helvétius

991. By appreciation we make excellence in others our own property.

992. By asking for the impossible, obtain the best possible. Italian Proverb

993. By association with the exalted, Who would not become uplifted? The thread which strings the flowers Becomes a garland for the head.

994. By changing history you deny the facts. Its not editing, it's censoring.

995. By common consent gray hairs are a crown of glory; the only object of respect that can never excite envy. --George Bancroft

996. By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

997. By definition, when you are investigating the unknown - you do not know what you will find.

998. By degrees the castles are built

999. By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top.

1000. By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task overwhelm me.


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