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My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.


Kent Beck

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MARTHA BECK My dog has the intellectual capacity of a lime wedge, yet even he possesses an elaborate set of assu...
MARTHA BECK I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hou...
GLENN BECK Indecision may come from an instinctive hunch that there's more you need to know - which means i...
MARTHA BECK To complete your daily mental hygiene, observe any part of you that is upset or anxious, and offer t...
MARTHA BECK Oh, and she absolutely adored Reggie Miller. She was sad to see him leave.
KRIS BECK Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting d...
MICHAEL BECK Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been...
MARTHA BECK Denial exists because human infants, though equipped with trust-o-meters, are built to trust, blindl...
MARTHA BECK [Currently, about 500 GNC franchise operators have begun legal proceedings against GNC Corporation r...
LARRY BECK The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be 'What the hell you ...
GLENN BECK The thing I love most about my job is watching people age backward, becoming more lively and energet...
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