#nit

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#always #false #front #humanity #rule

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. ↗

— George Michael

#business #crap #ego #pretend #self-satisfaction

People on series are now given a lot more opportunities, sometimes more than film actors. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#film actors #given #lot #more #now

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home. ↗

— Christina Milian

#california #far #greater #home #i

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. ↗

— David Millar

#chance #forgiven #given #human #human beings

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate. ↗

— Kelly Millar

#denominational #educational #general #impart #institution

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#deeply #face #freedom #independence #love

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#all things #center #created #darkness #god

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart. ↗

— Donald G. Mitchell

#feels #heart #long #love #ordinary

I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself. ↗

— Eddie Murphy

#because #came #confidence #had #i