#age

Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it. ↗

— Lenny Bruce

#allow #enough #give #plus #public

In recognising the global problem posed by osteoporosis, WHO sees the need for a global strategy for prevention and control of osteoporosis, focusing on three major functions: prevention, management and surveillance. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#focusing #functions #global #major #management

Forty years later, people still swear they can hear his offstage scream. ↗

— Robert Brustein

#forty years #hear #his #later #offstage

Marriage, it seems, confines every man to his proper rank. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#confines #every #every man #his #man

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#believe #cottage #descended #inferior #man

But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#baggage #bring #cannot #genocide #imperial

Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age. ↗

— James Buchan

#any #challenges #chief #financial #must

I want to keep talking about my people and my country in my own language. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

#country #i #keep #keep talking #language

The great disadvantage of getting older is to be obliged to relive the salient economic events of one's youth, with nothing learned and nothing forgotten. ↗

— James Buchan

#economic #events #forgotten #getting #getting older

The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. ↗

— James Buchan

#antiquity #commerce #cycle #famine #feast