Byrd Baggett
Quotes·Quotation
Past·Future
¶ Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Byrd Baggett
Byrd Baggett
Quotes·Quotation
Past·Future
¶ Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
Burrhus Frederic "B. F." Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990) was an American behaviorist, author, inventor, social philosopher and poet. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
Skinner invented the operant conditioning chamber, innovated his own philosophy of science called radical behaviorism, and founded his own school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. His analysis of human behavior culminated in his work Verbal Behavior, which has recently seen enormous increase in interest experimentally and in applied settings.
Skinner discovered and advanced the rate of response as a dependent variable in psychological research. He invented the cumulative recorder to measure rate of responding as part of his highly influential work on schedules of reinforcement. In a June, 2002 survey, Skinner was listed as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. He was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles.
Quotes·Quotation by B. F. Skinner
Technology
¶ The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Education
¶ Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._F._Skinnerb
Sophia Loren (1934~ )
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Sophia Loren (1934~ )
Sophia Loren (Italian pronunciation: [soˈfiːa ˈlɔːren]; born Sofia Villani Scicolone [soˈfiːa vilˈlaːni ʃikoˈloːne]; 20 September 1934) is an Italian-French film star. She began her career at age 14 after entering a beauty pageant in 1949. Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons, Loren appeared in several bit parts and minor roles until the late 1950s when Loren's five-picture contract with Paramount launched her international career. Notable film appearances around this time include Houseboat, That Kind of Woman and It Started in Naples.
Quotes·Quotations by Sophia Loren
Beauty
¶ Sex appeal is 50% what you've got and 50% what people think you've got.
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sophia_Loren_-_1959.jpg
F. H. Bradley (1846-1924)
F. H. Bradley (1846-1924)
Francis Herbert Bradley (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.
Adam and Eve
@ “Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms, no. 94 (1930)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._H._Bradley
Francis Herbert Bradley (30 January 1846 – 18 September 1924) was a British idealist philosopher.
Adam and Eve
@ “Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
F. H. Bradley, Aphorisms, no. 94 (1930)
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._H._Bradley
Bulgaria and Bulgarians
Bulgaria and Bulgarians
Bulgaria
Bulgaria i/bʌlˈɡɛəriə/ (Bulgarian: България, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫˈɡarijɐ]), officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the north, Serbia and Macedonia to the west, Greece and Turkey to the south and the Black Sea to the east. With a territory of 110,994 square kilometres (42,855 sq mi), Bulgaria is Europe's 14th-largest country. Its location has made it a historical crossroad for various civilisations and as such it is the home of some of the earliest metalworking, religious and other cultural artifacts in the world.[6][7][8][9]
The population of 7.36 million people is predominantly urban and mainly concentrated in the administrative centres of its 28 provinces. Most commercial and cultural activities are concentrated in the capital Sofia. The strongest sectors of the economy are heavy industry, power engineering and agriculture, all relying on local natural resources.
The current political structure dates to the adoption of a democratic constitution in 1991. Bulgaria is a unitary parliamentary republic with a high degree of political, administrative and economic centralisation. It is a member of the European Union, NATO and the Council of Europe; a founding state of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE); and has taken a seat at the UN Security Council three times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria
The Bulgarians (Bulgarian: българи, IPA: [bɤ̞ɫɡɐri]; colloquially: българе [bɤ̞ɫɡɐrɛ], бугари [buɡɐri], бугарье [buɡɐrjɛ]) are a South Slavic[38][40][41][42] ethnic group native to Bulgaria and neighbouring regions. Emigration has resulted in immigrant communities in a number of other countries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarians
Bulgarian language
Bulgarian (български език, pronounced: [ˈbɤ̞ɫɡɐrski ɛˈzik]) is an Indo-European language, a member of the Southern branch of the Slavic language family.
Bulgarian, along with the closely related Macedonian language (collectively forming the East South Slavic languages), has several characteristics that set it apart from all other Slavic languages: changes include the elimination of case declension, the development of a suffixed definite article (see Balkan language area) and the lack of a verb infinitive; but it retains and has further developed the Proto-Slavic verb system. Various evidential verb forms exist to express unwitnessed, retold, and doubtful action. Estimates of the number of people around the world who speak Bulgarian fluently range from about 6.8 million in 2013[3] to 9 million in 1986[4] and reach as high as 12 million.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language
Bulgarian Proverbs
Advice
¶ Ако сам не си помогнеш, и господ не може да ти помогне
Translation: If you don't help yourself, even God cannot help you.
Idiomatic translation: God helps those who help themselves.
Work
¶ Бързата работа - срам за майстора.
Hasty work - shame for the craftsman.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bulgarian_proverbs
References
Bulgaria
[6]^ Roberts, Benjamin W.; Thornton, Christopher P. (2009). "Development of metallurgy in Eurasia". Department of Prehistory and Europe, British Museum. p. 1015. Retrieved 8 June 2012. "In contrast, the earliest exploitation and working of gold occurs in the Balkans during the mid-fifth millennium BC, several centuries after the earliest known copper smelting. This is demonstrated most spectacularly in the various objects adorning the burials at Varna, Bulgaria (Renfrew 1986; Highamet al. 2007). In contrast, the earliest gold objects found in Southwest Asia date only to the beginning of the fourth millennium BC as at Nahal Qanah in Israel (Golden 2009), suggesting that gold exploitation may have been a Southeast European invention, albeit a short-lived one."
[7]^ Sigfried J. de Laet, ed. (1996). History of Humanity: From the Third Millenium to the Seventh Century BC. UNESCO / Routledge. p. 99. ISBN 978-92-3-102811-3. Retrieved 8 June 2012. "The first major gold-working centre was situated at the mouth of the Danube, on the shores of the Black Sea in Bulgaria ..."
[8]^ Milisauskas, Sarunas (74). European Prehistory: A Survey. Springer. ISBN 978-1-4419-6633-9. Retrieved 8 June 2012. "One of the earliest dates for an Aurignacian assemblage is greater than 43,000 BP from Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria ..."
[9]^ a b "Early human marks are 'symbols'". BBC News. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
Bulgarians
[38]^ a b c Day, Alan John; East, Roger; Thomas, Richard (2002). Political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe. Routledge. p. 96. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
[39]^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr., ed. (2005). "Languages of Turkey (Europe)". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (Fifteenth edition ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. ISBN 978-1-55671-159-6.
[40]^ One Europe, many nations: a historical dictionary of European national groups, James Minahan, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000, ISBN 0-313-30984-1, pp. 134–135. Google Books. Retrieved 2011-11-13.
[41]^ Fine, John Van Antwerp (1991). The early medieval Balkans: a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century. University of Michigan Press. p. 308. ISBN 978-0-472-08149-3.
[42]^ Kopeček, Michal (2007). In Balázs Trencsényi. Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): texts and commentaries. Central European University Press. p. 240. ISBN 978-963-7326-60-8.
Bulgarian language
[3]^ Ethnologue 2013
[4]^ Lewis, M. Paul (ed.) (1986–2009). "Bulgarian". Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. SIL International. Retrieved 10 march 2010.
[5]^ "Bulgarian language". Omniglot-Writing systems&Languages of the World. Retrieved 17 октомври 2010.
[6]^ "The Bulgarian language". Kwintessential. Retrieved 17 октомври 2010.
[7]^ "The languages spoken in Bulgaria". Spainexchange. Retrieved 17 октомври 2010.
[8]^ "Language of Bulgaria". Europecities. Retrieved 17 октомври 2010.
[9]^ "English to Bulgarian Translation". Bulgarian translation. Retrieved 18 октомври 2010.
[10]^ "Bulgarian for beginners". Bulgarian is a Southern Slavic language with approximately 12 million speakers in many countries. Retrieved 18 октомври 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarians
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_language
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bulgarian_proverbs
Bud Abbott (1895-1974)
Bud Abbott (1895-1974)
William Alexander "Bud" Abbott (October 2, 1895 – April 24, 1974) was an American actor, producer and comedian. He is best remembered as the straight man of the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, with Lou Costello.
Quotes·Quotation by Bud Abbott
¶ Who's on first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Abbott
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; Pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū; 26 June 1892 – 6 March 1973), primarily known as Pearl S. Buck, was a prolific American writer. In 1938, she became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Quotes·Quotations by Pearl S. Buck
Beauty
¶ Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh
Charles Augustus Lindbergh II (4 February 1902 – 26 August 1974) was an American aviator and writer who rose to fame after he piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. An isolationist prior to the US entry into World War II, and in later years an environmental activist, he was the husband of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh II (4 February 1902 – 26 August 1974) was an American aviator and writer who rose to fame after he piloted the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927. An isolationist prior to the US entry into World War II, and in later years an environmental activist, he was the husband of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.
Bruce Banner
Mark Ruffalo as Dr. Bruce Banner / Hulk
A genius scientist who, because of exposure to gamma radiation, transforms into a monster when enraged or excited. Ruffalo was cast after negotiations between Marvel and Edward Norton broke down. About replacing Norton, Ruffalo said, "I'm a friend of Ed's, and yeah, that wasn't a great way for all that to go down. But the way I see it is that Ed has bequeathed this part to me. I look at it as my generation's Hamlet." About the character, he said, "He's a guy struggling with two sides of himself—the dark and the light—and everything he does in his life is filtered through issues of control. I grew up on the Bill Bixby TV series, which I thought was a really nuanced and real human way to look at the Hulk. I like that the part has those qualities". Regarding the Hulk's place on the team, Ruffalo said, "He's like the teammate none of them are sure they want on their team. He's a loose cannon. It's like, 'Just throw a grenade in the middle of the group and let's hope it turns out well!" This is the first production in which the actor playing Banner also plays the Hulk. Ruffalo told New York magazine, "I'm really excited. No one's ever played the Hulk exactly; they've always done CGI. They're going to do the Avatar stop-action, stop-motion capture. So I'll actually play the Hulk. That'll be fun". The 3D model used to create the Hulk's body was modeled after Long Island bodybuilder and male stripper Steve Romm, while the Hulk's face was modeled after Ruffalo. To create the Hulk's voice, Ruffalo's voice was blended with those of Lou Ferrigno and others; however, the Hulk's only speaking line ("Puny god.") was provided solely by Ruffalo.
Quotes·Quotations by Bruce Banner
Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner from Avengers (2012)
¶ I don't get always what I want.
¶ Yes, and I'm not leaving because suddenly you get a little twitchy. [Avengers (2012)]
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