#ai

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#bombed #brought #fell #home #house

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#association #athletic #break #cannot #competed

You get very tired, and there was a certain amount of pain and you slow up. Your legs are so tired that you are in fact slowing. If you don't keep running, keep your blood circulating, the muscles stop pumping the blood back and you get dizzy. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#back #blood #certain #circulating #dizzy

Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment. ↗

— Robert Barany

#appeared #arm #complaint #experiment #later

I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure. ↗

— Tiki Barber

#clear #failure #grew #i #line

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn. ↗

— William Banting

#argument #articles #beans #beneficial #certain

My diminished girth, in tailor phraseology, was hardly conceivable even by my own friends, or my respected medical adviser, until I put on my former clothing, over what I now wear, which is a thoroughly convincing proof of the remarkable change. ↗

— William Banting

#change #clothing #conceivable #convincing #diminished

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#air conditioning #been #conditioning #god #over

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#counterfeit #even #flag #legalized #mississippi

If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach. ↗

— William Barclay

#attained #certainty #christ #conviction #doubts