#vent

We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#cause #course #events #influence #least

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations. ↗

— Emily Greene Balch

#altered #based #basis #deeply #discoveries

We can prevent Europe from becoming a spiritless machine that, in the end, grinds to a halt. ↗

— Jan Peter Balkenende

#end #europe #grinds #halt #in the end

The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#association #athletic #break #cannot #competed

If I were a Palestinian of the right age, I'd eventually join one of the terrorist organizations. ↗

— Ehud Barak

#eventually #i #join #organizations #palestinian

I'm a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there's some event I really have to go to, I don't like to leave my house. ↗

— Ellen Barkin

#extreme #go #homebody #house #i

To die will be an awfully big adventure. ↗

— J. M. Barrie

#awfully #big #big adventure #die #will

The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting. ↗

— Dave Barry

#call #communication #development #history #human

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#because #danger #emergency #event #feel

There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it. ↗

— Michael Bay

#chain #example #for example #geriatric #gravitate