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Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for obscurity.”)


Bruce Bawer

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BRUCE BARTON If Jesus had been killed twenty years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric...
LENNY BRUCE Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them...
BRUCE BARTON The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity -- an overwhelming faith in the...
BRUCE BARTON Advertising is the very essence of democracy.
BRUCE BARTON Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain ou...
BRUCE CAMPBELL Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
BRUCE LEE Communism is like one big phone company.
LENNY BRUCE For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men...
BRUCE BURTON Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did a...
LENNY BRUCE The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can
LENNY BRUCE America has the longest prison sentences in the West, yet the only condition long sentences demonstr...
BRUCE JACKSON Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. . . . Be a hero -- take the time learn ...
BRUCE WILLIS Conceit is God's gift to little men
BRUCE BARTON In every pang that rends the heart The Man of Sorrows had a part.
MICHAEL BRUCE Now a Jew, in the dictionary, is one who is descended from the ancient tribes of Judea, or one who i...
LENNY BRUCE The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seem...
LENNY BRUCE Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
LENNY BRUCE The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
BRUCE LEE It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
BRUCE LEE Many a person who goes on a diet finds out in short order that they are poor losers
BRUCE FROEMMING