#tie

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#better #good #good sense #matter #nonsense

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain. ↗

— Marek Belka

#international #iraq #madrid #otherwise #our

The impulse of the journalist is to be novel, yet to relate his curiosities to the urgencies of the moment; the philosopher seeks what he conceives to be true, regardless of the moment. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#conceives #curiosities #his #impulse #journalist

It's a very wonderful yet difficult thing to be given a lot of really good opportunities and the world is at your fingertips. ↗

— Troian Bellisario

#difficult #difficult thing #fingertips #given #good

Life has taught me that it is not for our faults that we are disliked and even hated, but for our qualities. ↗

— Bernard Berenson

#even #faults #hated #life #me

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways. ↗

— Peter L. Berger

#bowling #certain #certain kinds #communities #decline

The major task of the twentieth century will be to explore the unconscious, to investigate the subsoil of the mind. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#explore #investigate #major #mind #task

The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

#certainties #childhood #craving #desire #eternal

A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

#art #because #command #creation #does

Competition makes things come out right. Well, what does that mean in health care? More hospitals so they compete with each other. More doctors compete with each other. More pharmaceutical companies. We set up war. Wait a minute, let's talk about the patient. The patient doesn't need a war. ↗

— Donald Berwick

#care #come #companies #compete #competition