B Quotes
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“Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst.”
Source: The Uses of Literature
“Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.”
“biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.”
“Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.”
“Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.”
“Biographies by preachers are of no value. If they admire a man they always make him a saint, while if they dislike one, they always make him a demon.”
“Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.”
“Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best are almost equivalent to gospels,--teaching high living ,high thinking, and energetic action, for their own and, the world's good.”
Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance
“Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.”
“Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.”
“Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.”
“biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.”
“Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the west by tedium.”
“biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.”
Source: The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller
“Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.”
“Biography is one of the new terrors of death.”
“Biography is the best form of history.”
“Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of the world. The biographer at work, indeed, is like the professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.”
Source: Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes
“Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.”
“Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.”
“Biography is the only true history.”
“Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.”
“Biography lends to death a new terror.”
Source: The Happy Prince
“Biography should be written by an acute enemy.”
“Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.”
Source: Thoughts
“Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.”
Source: Supers & supermen: studies in politics, history and letters
“BioIntelligent Wellness provide services for testing which including Micronutrient, Food Sensitivity, Adrenal Stress & Neurotransmitter, Metabolic Rate and it helps you to stabilize the pancreas and blood sugar level while burning fat from body.”
“Biologia noastră circadiană și obligațiile interminabile pe care le avem de îndeplinit dimineața devreme în cursul acestui stil de viață postindustrial ne refuză somnul de care avem nevoie în mod vital.”
Source: Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
“Biological age is the key component of the aging process.”
“Biological age, I think because I've been taking care of myself for so long I know not just my reproductive organs but my heart, you know, are much younger than - than what I am.”
“Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.”
Source: Milkrun
“Biological correlates are often used to give credence to the experience of psychosomatic disorders. An objective change on a blood test or scan allows others to believe in the suffering.”
Source: The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
“Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!”
“Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure of where they should and must be ... We inhabit a world of human differences and predilections, but the extrapolation of these facts to theories of rigid limits is ideology.”
Source: The Mismeasure of Man (Revised & Expanded)
“Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.”
“Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.”
“Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.”
Source: The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
“Biological harm from electromagnetic interference (EMI) is the dirty secret of the electrical, electronics and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation industries.”
“Biological knowledge is doubling every five years.”
“Biological life is simply the continuous allocation of capital within an ecosystem.”
“Biological, phenotypic, and chromosomal sex differences of 'male' and 'female' are considered as having a biological (organic) basis, in contrast to the role meanings afforded to these sexes in the form of 'masculine' and 'feminine' genders, which may be considered as social constructs.”
Source: TRANS: Exploring Gender Identity and Gender Dysphoria
“Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.”
“Biological science clearly states that it is impossible to make the summit of Mauna Kea safe for the sea level adapted workers. As such, the Mauna Kea Observatories should be demolished as soon as possible to protect the health and safety of the unsuspecting workers.”
“Biological science is clear that the Mauna Kea Observatories must be shut down to protect the long term health of the summit workers. It will be interesting to see how long astronomers willfully ignore the science.”
“Biological sciences and bioengineering was the lucky batch with as many as six females compared to fifty males – while mechanical engineering was screwed harder than a titanium bolt, with a grand total of zero females.”
Source: The Four-Year Transform: A Campus Comedy
“Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.”
“Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea.”
“Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.”
“Biologically harmful electromagnetic radiation is part of a larger story about how human health is failing on a global scale.”
“Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.”