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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#effort #especially #every #government #government programs

I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#approach #approaches #demonstrated #depression #fails

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#flowers #give #individually #like #little

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#does #much #nothing #proceed #result

Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his author, to his public. He must do the impossible to identify himself with the first, not to betray the second, and not to disappoint the third. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

#author #belong #belongs #betray #ceases

The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

#behind #big #big story #business #context

It was a great way to work. In those days, you had to be there. It was your world. It was your club. Your friends were there, your associates were there, your security was there. ↗

— Elmer Bernstein

#club #days #friends #great #great way

The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it. ↗

— Halle Berry

#because #clearly #defining #first #first step

I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#am #come #forethought #free #grace

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#again #done #get #god #going