#bet

My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the popular ignorance and also with the great need of something better than local lore and weather proverbs. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#better #boyhood #city #great #great need

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets. ↗

— Peter Lewis Allen

#began #better #cast #ever #far

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

#behind #better #defines #humans #irrational

The live setting is always better for me. I usually thrive at live. I feel like having a band behind me and being able to interact with the crowd helps boost my energy up. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

#always #band #behind #being #better

Well, financially it's a little bit better. But it's better than than when I was a teacher. But I kind of - it's allowed me to buy a house. And I've been able to help my mother with some stuff and my brother. So, that's nice. ↗

— Clay Aiken

#allowed #been #better #bit #brother

My favorite type of music to sing is a crossover between country and pop. ↗

— Lauren Alaina

#country #crossover #favorite #music #pop

It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this. ↗

— Steve Albini

#betrays #him #his #hubris #i

I don't think the philosophy really changes between men and women. I think golf courses need to become more distance-friendly overall. I think golf courses almost need to develop a more generic set of tees instead of calling them black, blue, red or whatever. ↗

— Amy Alcott

#become #between #black #blue #calling

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. ↗

— Brian Aldiss

#civilization #distance #himself #his #man

I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs. ↗

— Lamar Alexander

#care #care costs #case #costs #country