#lt

When the Crossfire paradigm loses its force, all that's left is a bunch of people with different views all sitting together in a room, wondering why they're all paying three bucks a gallon for gas, why they have no health insurance, why their tax rates are higher than Warren Buffet's. If we're all equally a bunch of suckers, how could any of us be worth hating? ↗

— Matt Taibbi

#culture #politics #equality

I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance. ↗

— Terry Branstad

#example #future #going #health #health insurance

But only if I believe that my directing talents will improve the material I'd be working on. I want to make sure I don't sacrifice beautiful material on the altar of my direction. ↗

— Andre Braugher

#beautiful #believe #directing #direction #i

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult. ↗

— Richard Brautigan

#difficult #go #how #life #more

But I don't want to be out there anymore; I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#anymore #asking #choose #girl #health

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art

It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in the inclusion of this conquest of civilization within the framework of a complete human history. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#complete #conquest #experience #framework #history

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

#clear #covert #even #governing #hiding

Any that is why I think any kind of a stimulus package is going to have to help people who are without work, without a job, help them have health insurance. ↗

— John Breaux

#going #health #health insurance #help #help people

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population. ↗

— John O. Brennan

#casualties #civilian #including #population #unfortunately