#sent

To me, living in the present means being aware of your conscious choice to focus on the past, present or future - it is not necessarily having to focus on the present. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#being #choice #conscious #focus #future

A desire to be in charge of our own lives, a need for control, is born in each of us. It is essential to our mental health, and our success, that we take control. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#born #charge #control #desire #each

There is no question that al-Qaida operatives are currently active in Iraq. A premature exit before the threat they represent has been dealt with would endanger America and the prospects of eventual peace in the Middle East. ↗

— Robert Foster Bennett

#america #been #before #currently #dealt

The electroencephalogram represents a continuous curve with continuous oscillations in which... one can distinguish larger first order waves with an average duration of 90 milliseconds and smaller second order waves of an average duration of 35 milliseconds. ↗

— Hans Berger

#continuous #curve #distinguish #duration #first

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#business #closed #consenting #consenting adults #doors

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#extend #images #impulse #limit #memory

The pressure to compete, the fear somebody else will make the splash first, creates a frenzied environment in which a blizzard of information is presented and serious questions may not be raised. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#compete #creates #else #environment #fear

It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#healthy #jam #sentiment

What we are effectively doing, I say this to the young people of America whom my colleagues represent, is leaving our children and grandchildren the tab for fighting a war, letting them pay for the lion's share of it by simply adding it to the national debt. ↗

— John Spratt

#america #children #colleagues #debt #doing

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#purpose #quotes #representation #self #title