#event

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#exploitation #law #made #misery #naked

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ↗

— Andre Breton

#above #always #amazed #attaches #been

Jazz is about freedom within discipline. Usually a dictatorship like in Russia and Germany will prevent jazz from being played because it just seemed to represent freedom, democracy and the United States. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#because #being #democracy #dictatorship #discipline

T Bone and I grew up together in Fort Worth, Texas. He had his own recording studio by the time he was seventeen years old. When we were both nineteen he made the first archival recording of my voice. ↗

— Betty Buckley

#bone #both #by the time #first #fort

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#being #doing #i #injustice #justice

The Daytona 500 is a big race, and Darlington is just as big of an event, and a lot of people get excited for it. ↗

— Kurt Busch

#daytona #daytona 500 #event #excited #get