#ra

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#million #statistic #tragedy

But if I had committed a breach of privilege, it was the privilege of the Senate, and not of this House, which was violated. I was answerable there and not here. ↗

— Preston Brooks

#breach #committed #had #here #house

It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible. ↗

— Libba Bray

#libba-bray #funny

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man. ↗

— Scott Brooks

#closely #convincing #ever #fascinating #i

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#become #bestseller #books #del #did

Should the Catholic Church find itself discriminated against by the Obama administration on key delivery of services because of the bias and the bigotry of the administration? ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#against #because #bias #catholic #catholic church

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#citizens #cost #electricity #energy #increase

True delicacy is not a fragile thing. ↗

— James Broughton

#fragile #fragile thing #thing #true

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ↗

— Heywood Broun

#build #character #reveal

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption