#mer

Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous. ↗

— Harry Browne

#become #being #empire #i #ridiculous

For tis not in mere death that men die most. ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#death #die #mere #most #tis

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back. ↗

— Alan Shepard

#back #because #believe #contribute #fame

I was always drawn to performing. I took improv and acting classes during the summers and was involved in middle and high school plays. But when I discovered indie and punk music in high school, those things sort of took over. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#always #classes #discovered #drawn #during

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. ↗

— Sam Shepard

#being #breeding #divided #fear #fence

The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. ↗

— Craig Bruce

#cheney #disagree #disagreeing #ever #heard

But we discovered that, although I liked publishing, the commercial side meant nothing at all to me. ↗

— Dick Bruna

#commercial #discovered #i #liked #me

Still, American composers working in France have had a pretty hard time. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#composers #france #had #hard #hard time

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic. ↗

— James Buchan

#alliance #beings #climate #convenience #diplomacy

Osama bin Laden, the Saudi-born revolutionary who is believed by most Arab and Iranian observers to be the inspiration of the attacks in New York and Washington, is the best known of the Islamic militants to have emerged in the past 20 years and the least difficult to fathom. ↗

— James Buchan

#attacks #believed #best #bin #difficult