#ions

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#ages #gunpowder #humanity #inventions #love

The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#good #intentions #musician #perspective #record

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#effectiveness #geometric #increases #interruptions #progression

All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#between #determination #exact #exact science #founded

People feel that they're being required to meet all sorts of regulations and rules and requirements in their areas of work and MPs are not imposing those sort of restrictions on themselves. ↗

— Theresa May

#being #feel #imposing #meet #people

The U.K. needs a system for family migration underpinned by three simple principles. One: that those who come here should do so on the basis of a genuine relationship. Two: that migrants should be able to pay their way. And three: that they are able to integrate into British society. ↗

— Theresa May

#basis #british #come #family #genuine

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought. ↗

— Theresa May

#because #campaigned #decisions #difficult #difficult decisions

You only have to look at London, where almost half of all primary school children speak English as a second language, to see the challenges we now face as a country. This isn't fair to anyone: how can people build relationships with their neighbours if they can't even speak the same language? ↗

— Theresa May

#anyone #build #challenges #children #country

And I think that what is of concern is that they seem to be bringing skills from the scientific world into the interrogation room in a way that begs a lot of questions about whether it's ethical. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#begs #bringing #concern #ethical #i

The military is trying very hard right now to put a better face on Guantanamo, and I think they actually have tried to rid some of the extreme versions of abuse that we have read about. ↗

— Jane Mayer

#abuse #actually #better #extreme #face