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It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

- Robert Benchley

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Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.

- Robert Benchley

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Mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual.

- Walter Benjamin

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It doesn’t matter who you sleep with, it’s how you treat other people in this world.

- Amber Benson

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Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.

- Jeremy Bentham

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Secresy is an instrument of conspiracy; it ought not, therefore, to be the system of a regular government.

- Jeremy Bentham

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The principle of utility judges any action to be right by the tendency it appears to have to augment or diminish the happiness of the party whose interests are in question… if that party be the community the happiness of the community, if a particular individual, the happiness of that individual.

- Jeremy Bentham

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[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.

- Jeremy Bentham

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karysmacurves:

In almost every act of our lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons […] who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires that control the public mind, who harness old social forces and contrive new ways to bind and guide the world.

- Edward Bernays

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Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.

- Edward Bernays

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It is beyond dispute that the state exercises very great power over human life and it always shows a tendency to go beyond the limits laid down for it.

- Nikolai Berdyaev

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Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason’s light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!

- Pierre-Jean de Beranger