#world

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#analyze #describe #get #make #model

The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#crime #event #last #refuge #spontaneous

Opera? Just what the world needs: more fat women screaming. ↗

— Peter Boyle

#just #more #needs #opera #screaming

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#alone #any #arrive #cannot #dramatic

It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#good #him #himself #how #know

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators. ↗

— Joe Bob Briggs

#draft #instrument #most #often #third

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world. ↗

— Sergey Brin

#being #big #big difference #difference #ethical

Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick for the language. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#every #guide #individual #know #language

We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT. ↗

— Steve Brown

#around #base #fan #fan base #love

Her vision of the world under the water represented a beautiful stillness, a version of heaven. It was the lost city of Lena, her alternate universe, the life she yearned for but didn't get to have. ↗

— Ann Brashares

#beautiful #heaven #lost-city #stillness #vision