#of

Texas has arguably the most extreme separation between the well off and everyday people in the United States. ↗

— Don Baylor

#between #everyday #everyday people #extreme #most

During a trip to Iraq last fall, I visited our theater hospital at Balad Air Force Base and witnessed these skilled medical professionals in action and met the brave soldiers whose lives they saved. ↗

— Melissa Bean

#air #air force #base #brave #brave soldiers

The team which I led to the 1992 European Championship Finals is the only one in the history of the entire competition to have won every single one of its qualifying matches. ↗

— Michel Patini

#competition #entire #european #every #finals

The biggest threat to McDonald's lies within - and that is us as a company becoming complacent. There are a lot of companies that get fat, dumb and happy and take their eye off the ball and forget about serving customers. ↗

— Charlie Bell

#ball #becoming #biggest #companies #company

I often find the smaller, independent films are much more rewarding than the bigger stuff, but you do the bigger stuff because it's a business, and you've got to show your face a bit, get yourself around. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#because #bigger #bit #business #face

When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7. ↗

— Les Paul

#fingers #first #five #go #got

Torture is banned but in two-thirds of the world's countries it is still being committed in secret. Too many governments still allow wrongful imprisonment, murder or "disappearance" to be carried out by their officials with impunity. ↗

— Peter Benenson

#banned #being #carried #committed #countries

When I played in Holland, I always tried to lob the goalkeeper. People used to say, 'Oh, you're always only trying to make a nice goal'. But I said, 'Listen, if the goalie is a little bit off his line, how much space do you have on his left or right?' It's not a lot. 'And how much space do you have above him?' ↗

— Dennis Bergkamp

#always #bit #goal #goalkeeper #him

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#dated #fixed #inventions #many #offices