#mut

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#associations #end #even #exactly #feel

However muted its present appearance may be, sexual dominion obtains nevertheless as perhaps the most pervasive ideology of our culture and provides its most fundamental concept of power. ↗

— Kate Millett

#concept #culture #dominion #fundamental #however

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility. ↗

— Kate Millett

#identity #longer #mute #responsibility #say

Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves. ↗

— Nagarjuna

#dependence #derive #mutual #nature #nothing

The scene then as now was centered in New York. For the most part, I've kept a bit apart from that attractive and seductive city. I've done it by living in the country within commuting distance. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#attractive #bit #centered #city #commuting

Certainly the emphasis I place in this chapter on coordination of behavior and cooperation to mutual benefit is something that ought to be very congenial to people in the libertarian tradition. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#benefit #certainly #chapter #congenial #cooperation

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#also #american #beetle #collection #collections

Military officers from different countries, when they meet each other, tend to sort of fall in love, become mutual admiration societies, at the expense of realities. ↗

— William Odom

#become #countries #different #different countries #each

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental

A wise doctor does not mutter incantations over a sore that needs the knife. ↗

— Sophocles

#does #knife #mutter #needs #over