#mis

Only free people have an incentive to be virtuous. Only people who bear the consequences of their own acts will care about those consequences and try to learn from their mistakes. ↗

— Harry Browne

#acts #bear #care #consequences #free

Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#may #mistaken #pebbles #rough #sometimes

Chemistry cannot be manufactured or forced, so Wild Flag was not a sure thing, it was a 'maybe,' a 'possibility.' But after a handful of practice sessions, spread out over a period of months, I think we all realized that we could be greater than the sum of our parts. ↗

— Carrie Brownstein

#cannot #chemistry #could #flag #forced

Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#alternative #culture #education #explore #must

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#incapable #misfortune #solitude

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows. ↗

— James Bryce

#does #know #knows #made #makes

I just don't want people to think I'm too sweet of a boy; and little miss angel boy, because I'm going to get caught doing somebody horrible. ↗

— Michael Buble

#because #boy #caught #doing #get

In falling markets, there is nothing that has not happened before. The bear or pessimist sees only the past, which imprisons the wretched financial soul in eternal circles of boom and bust and boom again. ↗

— James Buchan

#bear #before #boom #bust #circles

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. ↗

— James Buchan

#eyes #financial #financial markets #forever #future

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