#rope

There is a difference between strategic or technical default and default where you really don't have the economy to support the spending. We are not at that point yet. We could be. We could be, like some European nations. ↗

— Charles F. Bass

#could #default #difference #economy #european

Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict. ↗

— Daniel Barenboim

#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others. ↗

— John Perry Barlow

#completely #different #economy #even #give

Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

#apparently #base #contempt #due #exposing

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border. ↗

— William Bartram

#frontier #had #i #may #now

I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#art #audience #concern #disappointed #europe

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

#beforehand #caused #contrary #exist #existed

I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30. ↗

— Amanda Beard

#all day #also #am #day #face

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have. ↗

— Antony Beevor

#being #control #diminish #dream #european

All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther. ↗

— Julien Benda

#followed #including #luther