#wi

Happy is the nation without a history. ↗

— Cesare Beccaria

#history #nation #without

I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#exactly #gone #gone with the wind #i #just

The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#observatory #soul #telescope #without #would

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#experience #fools #keeps #learn #other

Western countries in particular can today no longer be separated from Muslim societies, because they have them within themselves. They are themselves internally globalized. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#countries #globalized #internally #longer #muslim

Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#concern #eyes #first #future #globalization

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#complex #deal #education #jobs #need

I like to think of sales as the ability to gracefully persuade, not manipulate, a person or persons into a win-win situation. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#gracefully #i #into #like #manipulate

We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#breaks #country #end #england #hand

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think. ↗

— David Beckham

#brain #everyone #got #haven #i