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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#being #changing #constantly #contingent #despised

For example, Michael Jordan earns $100million a year but continues to play basketball and remains a modest human being. ↗

— Franz Beckenbauer

#being #continues #earns #example #for example

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#along #avoid #covered #crosses #fields

The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion. ↗

— Michael Behe

#comfort #data #even #followed #gave

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity. ↗

— Max Beerbohm

#between #conceit #delicate #delicate balance #modesty

One of the most effective things you will ever do in life, whether you care to or not, is set an example. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#example #exemplar #life #model #representative

I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#agreed #being #did #dispensable #endless

Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all. ↗

— John Berger

#character #death #itself #modern #notion

Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#also #attaining #central #employment #federal

Our strategy should be to strengthen the hand of moderate Muslims. ↗

— Gijs de Vries

#moderate #muslims #our #should #strategy