#prop

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#age #american #american women #disability #disproportionately

On the contrary, if they are treated with justice and humanity, proper example and the advantages of education given them, the coming years will be as bright and prosperous to the unfortunate race as the past has been dark and painful. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #bright #coming #contrary #dark

The big risk to British lives in 2013 is in Afghanistan. Our troops, diplomats and aid workers have made a big contribution there. But while there is an end date for Western engagement, 2014, there isn't a proper end game. ↗

— David Miliband

#aid #big #british #contribution #date

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#been #chief #chief danger #contained #courage

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#actions #happiness #intended #pain #pleasure

I spent as much time writing proposals in '98 and '99 as I did writing scripts. ↗

— Mark Millar

#i #much #proposals #scripts #spent

The trick was really finding the appropriate publisher for each of the projects I'd devised. ↗

— Mark Millar

#devised #each #finding #i #projects

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill. ↗

— Bryan Miller

#between #direct #direct proportion #disparity #mill

I think most things I read on the Internet and in newspapers are propaganda. Everyone from the 'New York Times' to Rupert Murdoch has a point of view and is putting forth their own propaganda. They're stuck with the facts as they are, but the way they interpret and frame them is wildly different. ↗

— Frank Miller

#everyone #facts #forth #frame #i

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked. ↗

— Keith Miller

#bible #get #giving #god #good