#nat

At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. ↗

— Robert T. Bakker

#charge #comparative #harvard #i #labs

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#nature #outraged #retribution

In spite of all this noise, customers are still definitely buying in North America, and they're really, really buying internationally. ↗

— Jim Balsillie

#buying #customers #definitely #internationally #noise

Manners are the hypocrisy of a nation. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#manners #nation

You appear to me not to have understood the nature of my body & mind. Partly from ill-health, & partly from an unhealthy & reverie-like vividness of Thoughts, & (pardon the pedantry of the phrase) a diminished Impressibility from Things, my ideas, wishes, & feelings are to a diseased degree disconnected from motion & action. In plain and natural English, I am a dreaming & therefore an indolent man. I am a Starling self-incaged, & always in the Moult, & my whole Note is, Tomorrow, & tomorrow, & tomorrow. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#indolence #procrastination #dreams

Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. ↗

— Russell Banks

#become #honest #imaginative #intelligent #life

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. ↗

— Henry Campbell-Bannerman

#before #confidence #differences #extension #fervently

The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America's publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#america #american #american interests #amount #antithetical

English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market. ↗

— Norman Spinrad

#because #biggest #design #dominates #english

The present aristocracy of western culture, at the moment when it most clearly dominates the world, is being imitated rapidly and successfully in every eastern country. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#being #clearly #country #culture #dominates