#sit

We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#endangered #life #live #more #more and more

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#absence #benevolence #confidence #disposition #justice

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#life #luxury #necessities

It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#ever #his #law #man #nature

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse. ↗

— Brendan Behan

#i #make #never #policeman #seen

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker. ↗

— Marek Belka

#interest #materialize #most #our #probably

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it. ↗

— Chris Bell

#beat #competition #i #no problem #out

Sometimes the best and worst times of your life can coincide. It is a talent of the soul to discover the joy in pain—-thinking of moments you long for, and knowing you’ll never have them again. The beautiful ghosts of our past haunt us and yet we still can’t decide if the pain they caused us out weighs the tender moments when they touched our soul. This is the irony of love. (MU Article, 2010) ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#bad-choices #decisions #family #friendship #hindsight

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time