#ovid

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#battlefields #comedy #endless #family #headed

Currently, the United States provides 22 percent of the U.N. annual budgets, over $900 million in fiscal year 2007, and some of that funding goes to the Human Rights Council. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#budgets #council #currently #fiscal #fiscal year

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#happy #i #i think #now #people

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down. ↗

— Callum McDougall

#budding #cards #comes #directors #down

In providing this $5,000 tax credit for those purchasing rural homes, we're offering an important incentive to encourage people to live in smaller communities - and perhaps even stay in a community they might be considering leaving. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#community #considering #credit #encourage #even

The men and women of our armed forces played an instrumental role in the election process - securing polling sites and providing security - that allowed so many Iraqis the opportunity to vote freely for the first time ever. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#armed #armed forces #election #ever #first

As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#arts #becomes #collective #direction #increasingly

A commercial society whose members are essentially ascetic and indifferent in social ritual has to be provided with blueprints and specifications for evoking the right tone for every occasion. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#blueprints #commercial #essentially #every #evoking

Providing tax relief and reducing regulations leads to job creation and new economic opportunities for our small businesses, which are the backbone of our economy. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#businesses #creation #economic #economic opportunities #economy

Baldwin is sort of getting to be a bit funny. I don't know what happened, but a few years ago they suddenly went bankrupt and Gibson bought the whole outfit. Since then they haven't seemed to be doing an awfully good job of providing pianos. ↗

— Marian McPartland

#awfully #baldwin #bankrupt #bit #bought