#embers

The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#liberty #mafia #me #members #protects

In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about. ↗

— David Amram

#almost #atmosphere #audience #audience members #church

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#commonwealth #conceive #gods #members #men

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. ↗

— John Mason Brown

#remember #remembers #said #says #someone

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#civilization #deserted #fear #helpless #make

My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress. ↗

— Jason Chaffetz

#aisle #both #both sides #challenge #congress

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#effective #institutions #international #international institutions #like

Fortunately, I was still living in Los Angeles at the time. So I went out to World Gym and got a membership. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#fortunately #got #gym #i #living

The unions still have a job to do, representing their members' interests to governments and parliaments. And I think collective agreements still have a role, alongside markets and laws. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#alongside #collective #governments #i #i think

Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#achieve #between #continual #continually #difficult