#harm

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. ↗

— John McGahern

#alice #billy #book #called #charming

By drawing or exposing two or more patterns on the same bit of film I can create harmony and textual effects. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#create #drawing #effects #exposing #film

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ↗

— Mignon McLaughlin

#ignorance #innocence #us

Ideally, advertising aims at the goal of a programmed harmony among all human impulses and aspirations and endeavors. Using handicraft methods, it stretches out toward the ultimate electronic goal of a collective consciousness. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aims #among #aspirations #collective #collective consciousness

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#charms #convince #done #enough #must

We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#could #day #discover #double #harmony

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#balance #harmony #intensity #matter #order

A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#able #circumstances #count #dire #doctor

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#any #civilized #community #either #exercised

'Occupy' is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm America. ↗

— Frank Miller

#clowns #false #fed #harm #mob