#nu

Number is different from quantity. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#number #quantity

It is, I claim, nonsense to say that it does not matter which individual man acted as the nucleus for the change. It is precisely this that makes history unpredictable into the future. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#change #claim #does #future #history

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#beings #eat #human #human beings #nutrients

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discontinuity #fluidity #live #reality #which

Fundamentally, legislation that is historic, that is comprehensive, that has a large number of senators supporting it is more durable. ↗

— Max Baucus

#durable #fundamentally #historic #large #large number

To win the war on terror, we must know who our friends are and where our enemies are hiding. We can't continue fighting terrorism using the same foreign policy blueprints that were in place before September 11th. ↗

— Evan Bayh

#blueprints #continue #fighting #foreign #foreign policy

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#charitable #considering #contained #currently #disclose

How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when they're giving you an enema. ↗

— Warren Beatty

#enema #giving #hate #hates #how

We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair. ↗

— Xavier Becerra

#before #billion #competition #continue #deficit

Tonight the city is full of morgues, and all the toilets are overflowing. There's shopping malls coming out of the walls, as we walk out among the manure. That's why I pay no mind. ↗

— Beck

#city #coming #full #i #malls