#comp

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#democracy #does #make #must #notion

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#complex #irrational #life #messy #nothing

On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#average #compared #couple #day #each

You can only watch injustice go on for so long until you're compelled to say something. To speak out against it. ↗

— Macklemore

#compelled #go #injustice #long #only

You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing. ↗

— Macklemore

#comfort zone #compelling #different #get #interesting

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#accomplishment #anything #dangerous #done #haven

In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#around #complex #corner #county #fire

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. ↗

— James Madison

#comprises #develops #dreaded #every #germ