#cord

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#act #always #arranges #evil #free

The folks celebrating Jim Bunning are seeing him as an anti-government, anti-spending activist. But to embrace Jim Bunning is to embrace a strange record, if you really are a libertarian, if you really are a deficit hawk, if you really care about spending and responsibility. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#activist #care #celebrating #deficit #embrace

I am accordingly ready; I have pressed as many Cabinet papers into trunks as to fill one carriage; our private property must be sacrificed, as it is impossible to procure wagons for its transportation. ↗

— Dolley Madison

#am #cabinet #carriage #fill #i

When I hit my 20s, I took a chill pill and relaxed because throughout my teens I was churning out an album a year. It was a treadmill of work then recording, promoting and touring. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#because #chill #churning #hit #i

According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#accused #between #choice #given #heresy

If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#already #austrian #become #cup #healthy

The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#angle #examines #minds #state #them

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination. ↗

— Maimonides

#astronomy #between #certainly #comprehending #desirous

I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#cool #get #haven #heard #hustle

All records are not made to be broken. ↗

— Karl Malone

#made #records