#han

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

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Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#better #less #money #more #supposedly

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changed #ending #gives #like #meaning

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#giving #more #sharing #sometimes #than

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former. ↗

— Max Baucus

#been #china #critical #former #human

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#even #financial #honesty #honesty is #merchant

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#boring #considered #everything #less #oneself

There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#infinite #more #steely #than

The Treatise tries to analyze not only modern Western families, but also those in other cultures and the changes in family structure during the past several centuries. ↗

— Gary Becker

#analyze #centuries #changes #cultures #during

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

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