#able

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

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals. ↗

— Henry Bonilla

#benefit #bulldoze #business #governments #home

Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#about #almost #become #consulting #corporations

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#able #bank #change #her #like

The American economy has always been driven by the entrepreneurial nature of its citizens, and blocking access to affordable health care will only suffocate growth within the small business sector of our economy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#affordable #affordable health care #always #american #american economy

It is not reasonable that art should win the place of honor over our great and powerful mother Nature. We have so overloaded the beauty and richness of her works by our inventions that we have quite smothered her. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#nature #sustainable-development #art

The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#achieving #build #character #discipline #goal

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#carry #into #less #more #more and more

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #conditions #controlled #could #ever

I feel fine and comfortable with myself, but not because I'm beautiful. ↗