#con

What is art? Nature concentrated. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#concentrated #nature

So, I think the output of our innovation is great. We have a culture of self-improvement. I know we can continue to improve. There is no issue. But at the same time, our absolute level of output is fantastic. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#continue #culture #fantastic #great #i

In 1925, when Britain went back to the gold standard, that was supported by the Conservative Party, the Labour Party, the Bank of England, the civil service, the CBI, the TUC, the Times, the Economist; that consensus was very strong. ↗

— Ed Balls

#bank #britain #civil #civil service #consensus

Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#center #commitment #continuity #cross #example

The argument has been made in Congress that it is slippery slope if you allow therapeutic, what people people are calling therapeutic cloning, then you will get reproductive cloning. ↗

— David Baltimore

#argument #been #calling #cloning #congress

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#contend #devours #everything #familiarity #incessantly

By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#empire #europe #evident #gain #maintain

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. ↗

— Luis Barragan

#cold #convenience #emotional #house #piece

To be a mass tourist, for me,...is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#economics

Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily. ↗

— King Abdullah II

#because #confidence #conversations #easily #help