#once

In the best farce today we start with some absurd premise as to character or situation, but if the premises be once granted we move logically enough to the ending. ↗

— George P. Baker

#best #character #ending #enough #farce

We must examine then the concerns of the Government of Japan about the language of the treaty itself - of SOFA - and of the interim and further arrangements that have been made since 1995, and see whether or not we need to make any changes. Those are decisions I cannot make. ↗

— Howard Baker

#any #arrangements #been #cannot #changes

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film. ↗

— Russell Baker

#act #actor #after #dear #enjoyed

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. ↗

— Tom Baker

#ever #got #i #i can #laughs

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear. ↗

— Russell Baker

#hear #listen #once #while #you

Children always assume the sexual lives of their parents come to a grinding halt at their conception. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#assume #children #come #conception #grinding

But it then very soon became clear that the response of a war against terrorism, initially conceived of in a metaphorical sense, began to be taken increasingly seriously and came to entail waging a real war. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#became #began #came #clear #conceived

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further. ↗

— Marek Belka

#concerned #develop #far #further #how

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. ↗

— Paul Berg

#barriers #breach #breeding #concern #customary

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#completely #computer #honest #inhumanity #once