#nit

It is not in giving life but in risking life that man is raised above the animal; that is why superiority has been accorded in humanity not to the sex that brings forth but to that which kills. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#accorded #animal #been #brings #forth

Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#african american #american #community #diabetes #does

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community. ↗

— Harry Belafonte

#always #anti-semitism #been #community #even

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#difficult #difficult thing #fingertips #given #good

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#because #beforehand #conscious #definition #investigate

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#book #classic #definition #everyone #often

Yes, there are in me the makings of a very fine loafer, and also of a pretty spry sort of fellow. I often think of those lines of old Goethe: 'Schade, daß die Natur nur einen Menschen aus dir schuf; Denn zum würdigen Mann war und zum Schelmen der Stoff.' ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#goethe #humanity #men #poetry #potential

No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#definite #edited #ever #eyes #institutions

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#definition #dreams #life #short #short life

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#bowling #certain #certain kinds #communities #decline