#cia

We were from totally different social backgrounds. This is what is very hard for an American to understand, but we could have been five guys from Mars. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#backgrounds #been #could #different #five

A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in developing countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#adequate #basic #condition #countries #developing

More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries. ↗

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

#communities #countries #development #economic #environmental

The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#developed #especially #however #i #initially

According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#afghanistan #after #aid #army #began

Cause and effect, the riddle of all history, is a particular devil in financial history; and never more so than today, where entire classes of security are collapsing not on public exchanges and stock-tickers but because there are no markets to establish prices this side of nothing. ↗

— James Buchan

#cause #classes #collapsing #devil #effect

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago. ↗

— James Buchan

#ago #answer #belated #britain #british

When you become successful on the level that Fleetwood Mac did, it gives you financial freedom, which should allow you to follow your impulses. But oddly enough, they become much harder to follow. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#become #did #enough #financial #fleetwood

It would seem, therefore, that this constitutional safeguard may no longer serve its original purpose, especially when, as we learned last year, some acts of perjury may now be acceptable - in this world, at least, if not the next. ↗

— James L. Buckley

#acts #constitutional #especially #last #last year

One must bear in mind that the expansion of federal activity is a form of eating for politicians. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#bear #eating #expansion #federal #form