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The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#creatures #enlightenment #into #leads #mankind

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#convenient #correct #easy #may #politically

We have taken a giant step forward in correcting some of the misconceptions people have about the church. I think that we've made a lot of friends. ↗

— M. Russell Ballard

#church #correcting #forward #friends #giant

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#deeper #effect #fix #had #important

We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are. ↗

— Ed Balls

#bold #come #credible #edge #forward

We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was this journalism? Or was this coverage? ↗

— Ashleigh Banfield

#completely #coverage #happened #horrors #journalism

What drives me is exploration with a purpose, more the classic Royal Geographical Society genre. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#drives #exploration #genre #geographical #me

Where I live in Connecticut was ice a mile above my house, all the way back to the North Pole, about 15 million kilometers, that's a big ice cube. But then it started to melt. We're talking about the floods of our living history. ↗

— Robert Ballard

#above #back #big #connecticut #cube

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#brainwashed #children #dimension #dimensions #google

The number one benefit of information technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. It lets people be creative. It lets people be productive. It lets people learn things they didn't think they could learn before, and so in a sense it is all about potential. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#before #benefit #could #creative #empowers