#tie

Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young. ↗

— Martha Beck

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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work? ↗

— Gary Becker

#activities #agricultural #almost #bearing #certain

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman. ↗

— David Beckham

#become #facilities #give #great #inspiration

It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be ascribed to natural selection, and therefore were designed. But we must deal with our shock as best we can and go on. ↗

— Michael Behe

#best #cannot #century #deal #designed

A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of art is the product of strange activities in the human mind. ↗

— Clive Bell

#activities #air #art #bosom #complicated

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain. ↗

— Daniel Bell

#existing #field #his #intellectual #knowledge

I lost my mind at 15. I'd been shown a world where there were no boundaries, where everyone gave me all the power. And I was like, 'This is great!' Then that was gone. But I was like, 'Yeah, but I still want that.' I'd lost my humble, very quiet, introverted sensibilities which I think I definitely had as a kid. ↗

— Jamie Bell

#boundaries #definitely #everyone #gave #gone

An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#does #faith #fashion #follow #latest

The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists. ↗

— Ruth Benedict

#culture #fulfillment #globe #humanities #learn

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#dead #experience #exploring #ground #instrument