#nit

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. ↗

— James Madison

#been #chequered #error #gained #humanity

I think flying planes into a building was a faith-based initiative. I think religion is a neurological disorder. ↗

— Bill Maher

#disorder #faith-based #flying #i #i think

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#been #close #doors #large #resist

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#catholics #community #counseling #general #grandfathers

Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#anyone #bands #being #books #community

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#gain #given #honor #masculinity #small

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#become #combinations #grasp #had #hold

Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#american life #american men #because #built-in #certain

Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#each #exclusively #his #humanity #individuals