#ff

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#history #human #human nature #keeps #nature

The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too. ↗

— Ernest Borgnine

#because #believe #changed #day #deal

I'm too old to be farting around with stuff that isn't precisely what I want to do. ↗

— Wes Borland

#i #old #precisely #stuff #too

For, behind the scenes, halfway around the world in Mexico, were two decades of aggressive research on wheat that not only enabled Mexico to become self-sufficient with respect to wheat production but also paved the way to rapid increase in its production in other countries. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#also #around #become #behind #countries

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor. ↗

— Amar Bose

#bought #buy #decided #figured #five

The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26. ↗

— Amar Bose

#different #excitement #i #level #me

Barge traffic on the Mississippi River represents the most efficient, most cost-effective, most environmentally sound means of transporting commodity goods from this region of the country to market. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#cost-effective #country #efficient #environmentally #goods

The National Intelligence Director needs the authority to do the job we are asking him to do. That means power over the intelligence budget. And to be effective, to be allowed to do his or her job, they must have authority over the budget. ↗

— Leonard Boswell

#asking #authority #budget #director #effective

I grew up in a small town where everyone wanted to be the same or look the same and was afraid to be different. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#be different #different #everyone #grew #i

I just think that people take me a little more seriously as a brunette. I don't know if that's just because of a societal preconceived notion that all blondes are stupid, but it's a different kind of attitude. ↗

— Kate Bosworth

#because #blondes #brunette #different #different kind