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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#individual #interest #talk #understanding #vain

Now I believe that people need to understand what's happening in my campaign, and they're going to get three or four snapshots of that, with plenty of time before the first disclosure happens in June. ↗

— Craig Benson

#believe #campaign #disclosure #first #four

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours. ↗

— Julie Benz

#agent #angeles #director #everybody #hours

It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding. ↗

— Halle Berry

#closest #hard #me #people #self

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#awake #beating #cover #each #fall

The founders were very worried that if parties developed in America, you might have something like the modern Italian system, where you have 20 different parties that divide Congress and the country and can't govern. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#congress #country #developed #different #divide

You have had presidential candidates over the last 30 years who would have had a very hard time getting nominated under the old system. One example is John Kennedy. ↗

— Michael Beschloss

#example #getting #had #hard #hard time

At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of improving my position, but I felt that I was still labouring under the disadvantage of not having acquired some technical profession. ↗

— Henry Bessemer

#amateur #commercial #disadvantage #enthusiasm #fast

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#going #i #i believe #innovate #misunderstood

On the Internet, companies are scale businesses, characterized by high fixed costs and relatively low variable costs. You can be two sizes: You can be big, or you can be small. It's very hard to be medium. A lot of medium-sized companies had the financing rug pulled out from under them before they could get big. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

#big #businesses #characterized #companies #costs