#les

The parent is the strongest statement that the child hears regarding what it means to be alive and real. More than what we say or do, the way we are expresses what we think it means to be alive. So the articulate parent is less a telling than a listening individual. ↗

— Polly Berrien Berends

#articulate #child #expresses #hears #individual

But the prospects of designing chemical plants for industrial scale chemical processes seemed far less interesting than the chemical events that occur in biological systems. ↗

— Paul Berg

#chemical #designing #events #far #far less

I'm a huge fan of the Navy. My father was a Naval historian, and I've been studying Naval battles forever. ↗

— Peter Berg

#been #fan #father #forever #historian

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#apart #beauty #blessing #expectations #object

Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies... and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#area #audio #away #bin #his

Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#generosity #happiness #life-lessons #beauty

The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#heart #human #human heart #less #literature

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#creating #endlessly #exist #go #mature

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

College women are typically given to declaring for one or the other (in my day, for marriage; now, generally, for careers), and only later finding to their surprise that they must cope with both--while their men may be trying to figure out how to get out of doing both. ↗

— Judith Martin

#gender-roles #miss-manners #equality