#lie

If the flag of an armed enemy of the U.S. is allowed to fly over government buildings, then it implies that slavery, or at least the threat of slavery, is sanctioned by that government and can still legally exist. ↗

— Amiri Baraka

#armed #buildings #enemy #exist #flag

My earlier award was also based on a close collaborative effort. ↗

— John Bardeen

#award #based #close #collaborative #earlier

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

#contrast #does #genius #mozart #must

Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy. ↗

— Fred Barnes

#accomplish #achieving #advocating #candidates #conflicting

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with. ↗

— Roseanne Barr

#believe #bigger #decrease #i #i believe

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#give #i #me #myself #put

We are people with all the hopes, dreams, passions, and faults of everyone else. Eighty percent of us are born into families with no history of dwarfism. ↗

— Billy Barty

#dreams #eighty #else #everyone #families

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness. ↗

— Bruno Bauer

#become #biggest #biggest obstacle #christianity #had

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

#believe #born #genius #great #great genius