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"Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket."	Alan Marshall Beck
"What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him."	Alan Marshall Beck
"A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!"	Alan Marshall Beck
"A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew?'"	Robert Charles Benchley
"The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope."	Walter Benjamin
"Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not."	Sir Isaiah Berlin
"To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival."	Wendell Berry
"Patience with others is Love, Patience with self is Hope, Patience with God is Faith."	Adel Bestavros
"Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."	Bible
"To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval."	Hebrews 11:1-2 Bible
"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment."	Josh Billings
"My friend, if I could give you one thing, I would wish for you the ability to see yourself as others see you. Then you would realize what a truly special person you are."	B. A. Billingsly
"Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty."	Rose Elizabeth Bird
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."	Thomas Edward Bodett
"The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass."	Nicholas Boileau
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"Parenting is a negative thing. Keep your children from killing themselves, or anyone else, and hope for the best."	Erma Louise Bombeck
"If you wish to be a sucess in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."	Napolean Bonaparte
"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."	Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"[Richard] Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win … and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied."	Fawn M. Brodie
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