#rna

Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#already #because #does #external #fiction

It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives. ↗

— Ed Balls

#change #changed #country #error #had

The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#because #christian #contained #dogma #dogmas

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life. ↗

— William Banting

#comfortable #destroy #did #evil #fair

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ↗

— Dave Barry

#extremely #how #journalists #know #little

I never have been insecure, because I see what a waste it is. I know there is a solution to insecurity. I don't tend to be thrown by problems that don't have solutions. And insecurity has a wealth of alternatives. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#because #been #i #i see #insecure

When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. ↗

— Mario Batali

#book #college #day #different #dirty

If we pursue this matter further, we shall be told that the stable object is unchanging under the impact or stress of some particular external or internal variable or, perhaps, that it resists the passage of time. ↗

— Gregory Bateson

#further #impact #internal #matter #object

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#awake #because #days #desperate #eternal

It is often said that science must avoid any conclusions which smack of the supernatural. ↗

— Michael Behe

#avoid #conclusions #must #often #said