#irs

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857. ↗

— Edward Bellamy

#city #first #i #light #saw

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#desire #first #law #make #must

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as God's children. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#destiny #extent #fail #god #legacy

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#community #down #first #foremost #handed

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

Incidentally, I'm still looking for acting work, my first love. ↗

— Shelley Berman

#first #first love #i #incidentally #looking

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#bit #first #i #sarcasm #times

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. ↗

— George Berkeley

#bring #certain #certain point #common #common sense