#van

I consider a poem to be a kind of experiment where a number of elements are brought together under test conditions to see how they will interact to create meaning or relevance. ↗

— John Barton

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Christendom appears clearly to me to be one of those trifling, insignificant arts, which has never been of any substantial advantage to mankind. ↗

— Edward Hicks

#any #appears #arts #been #christendom

I stay in France. Better to be the queen of a village than a servant in a kingdom. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#france #i #kingdom #queen #servant

To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily. ↗

— Warren Beatty

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In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instruments to advance U.S. issues, and we have to decide whether a particular issue is best done through the U.N. or best done through some other mechanism. ↗

— John Bolton

#best #broadly #decide #done #instruments

In fact, when care appears, unconditional love often vanishes. ↗

— Martha Beck

#care #conditional love #fact #in fact #love

In order to say that some function is understood, every relevant step in the process must be elucidated. ↗

— Michael Behe

#every #function #must #order #process

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

#age #busy #knowledge #live #perfection

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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