#ran

I guess there seems to be clubs opening up again, which is strange. ↗

— Todd Barry

#clubs #guess #i #opening #seems

No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. ↗

— Bernard Barton

#absolute #absolute necessity #age #below #beneath

If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose. ↗

— William Bartram

#animal #artifice #attention #bestow #creation

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either. ↗

— Gary Bauer

#aversion #big #bureaucracy #bureaucrats #care

Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming and accessible, willing to tolerate and to teach, happy to inspire but also to be inspired. ↗

— Greg Bear

#also #brilliant #charming #could #friendship

Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant. ↗

— Sidney Hook

#always #cannot #intolerant #itself #limits

San Francisco is perhaps the most European of all American cities. ↗

— Cecil Beaton

#american cities #cities #european #francisco #most

It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#age #away #contrasted #death #destiny

He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists. There was no peace for men, only murder, cruelty, brutality. ↗

— James T. Farrell

#world-war-i #young-adults #men

I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable. ↗

— Lake Bell

#always #am #because #continue #dairy