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- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
- When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news.
- John B. Bogart (1848 - 1921)
- He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
- Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964), Hostage (1958)
- Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), The Unnamable (1959) page 418
- No moral system can rest solely on authority.
- A. J. Ayer (1910 - 1989), Humanist Outlook
- What's up, Doc?
- Tex Avery (1908 - 1980), Bugs Bunny's catch phrase
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- A poet's hope: to be,
like some valley cheese, local, but prized elsewhere. - W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973), Collected Poems
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
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