#so

For no continuity of social act is possible without a corresponding social status and the many different kinds of act required in an industrial state, with its high degree of specialization, make for corresponding classification of status. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#classification #continuity #corresponding #degree #different

Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow! Q: Then, you are not! A: I ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#chameleon #chameleonism #change #evolving #flexibility

We not only interpret the character of events... we may also interpret our interpretations. ↗

— Kenneth Burke

#character #events #interpret #interpretations #may

Sometimes its controversy, but we all have our choices that we make. ↗

— Solomon Burke

#controversy #make #our #sometimes

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#after #also #because #been #feel

But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or 15 years, bad as it is, is nothing compared to the kind of things people would write down and sing back in the Civil War. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#bad #civil #civil war #compared #country

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#always #days #get #hiss #ironic

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth. ↗

— Frances Burney

#anything #create #cruel #despite #earth

Leaders are not pale reflectors of major social conflicts; they play up some, play down others, ignore still others. ↗

— James MacGregor Burns

#down #ignore #leaders #major #others

I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance. ↗

— John Burns

#cardinal #cleanliness #drink #i #impressed