#rio

Even institutions of State, such as the judiciary, were seriously weakened, to the extent that the citizenry justifiably feared a breakdown in law and order. The business community was hit by a slump in sales and confidence, leading to reduced earnings and loss of jobs. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#business #business community #citizenry #community #confidence

I suspect the psychological pressure associated with that crisis caused the first mental blackout I had ever suffered. It contributed to a deterioration in my health that later required the insertion of a heart pacemaker. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#blackout #caused #contributed #crisis #deterioration

Serious art has been the work of individual artists whose art has had nothing to do with style because they were not in the least connected with the style or the needs of the masses. Their work arose rather in defiance of their times. ↗

— Franz Marc

#art #artists #because #been #connected

Every day sees humanity more victorious in the struggle with space and time. ↗

— Guglielmo Marconi

#every #every day #humanity #more #sees

The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative. ↗

— Herbert Marcuse

#choice #criterion #entirely #free #free choice

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

We created a show and a scenario for college students where they can take what they learn in class every day and apply it to the real world. ↗

— Ross Martin

#class #college #college students #created #day

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. ↗

— Steve Martin

#letters #period #punctuation #tired #wasting

When I first started doing my comedy act, I just desperately needed material. So I took literally everything I knew how to do on stage with me, which was juggling, magic and banjo and my little comedy routines. I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy. ↗

— Steve Martin

#always #audience #banjo #comedy #desperately

When I do an album I try to find a producer that's excited about something that they want me to sing, and I check with the record company to find out what they think they can sell - which is their No. 1 priority. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#album #check #company #excited #find