#orc

When people divorce, it's always such a tragedy. At the same time, if people stay together it can be even worse. ↗

— Monica Bellucci

#divorce #even #even worse #people #same

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match. ↗

— Bruce Beresford

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Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#controlled #creates #democracy #even #forces

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #any #bound #climbed #day

I think a lot of people think because I was getting the divorce, that was really the catalyst for gaining so much weight. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

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When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces. ↗

— Joe Biden

#authority #authorize #chief #commander #constitution

As history since Hiroshima shows, the best, perhaps the only, way to curb war is to deter it with such overwhelming force as to turn it from a struggle into suicide. ↗

— Martin Van Creveld

#curb #deter #force #hiroshima #history

Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#diplomatic #diplomatic relations #divorce #relations #resumption

With no other security forces on hand, U.S. military was left to confront, almost alone, an Iraqi insurgency and a crime rate that grew worse throughout the year, waged in part by soldiers of the disbanded army and in part by criminals who were released from prison. ↗

— John Spratt

#alone #army #confront #crime #crime rate