#ed

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. ↗

— Vannevar Bush

#calm #cannot #evaluation #fear #mitigated

When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something. ↗

— Dick Butkus

#deliberately #football #game #hurt #i

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling. ↗

— Geezer Butler

#ball #been #couple #did #during

The Phantom, as well as being backed up by that music, it just so was a role that I identified with so powerfully. From the first second that I walked on to perform. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#being #first #i #identified #just

Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#constitute #constituted #does #good #interest

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#desired #die #end #his #i

There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender... identity is performatively constituted by the very 'expressions' that are said to be its results. ↗

— Judith Butler

#constituted #expressions #gender #identity #results

It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims. ↗

— Judith Butler

#cannot #historically #jews #legitimately #now

Yes, they wanted me to sign a contract of exclusivity, and I refused. ↗

— Claudia Cardinale

#exclusivity #i #me #refused #sign

War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. ↗

— Smedley Butler

#international #lives #losses #only #profits