#tie

The humanities need to be defended today against the encroachments of physical science, as they once needed to be against the encroachment of theology. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#defended #encroachments #humanities #need #needed

Patience was not my strong point. ↗

— Lauren Bacall

#point #strong #strong point

In 2003, I introduced and passed The Tornado Shelters Act, which allows local governments to use Community Development Block Grant funds to construct storm shelters in manufactured housing communities. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#allows #block #communities #community #construct

Communities don't have rights. Only individuals in the community have rights. ↗

— Michael Badnarik

#community #individuals #only #rights

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. ↗

— Howard Baker

#balance #care #changing #each #education

We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#been #certain #certain time #commercial #development

When it comes to cars, only two varieties of people are possible - cowards and fools. ↗

— Russell Baker

#cars #comes #cowards #fools #only

Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. ↗

— Russell Baker

#century #comic #english #english literature #literature

When sudden death takes a president, opportunities for new beginnings flourish among the ambitious and the tensions among such people can be dramatic, as they were when President Kennedy was killed. ↗

— Russell Baker

#among #beginnings #death #dramatic #flourish

As to judging our own time, and thereby gaining some basis for a judgment of future possibilities, we are doubtless not only too close to it to appraise it but too much formed by it and enclosed within it to do so. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#basis #close #doubtless #enclosed #formed