#rise

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#cinema #coincide #conclude #crime #drop

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#arise #cannot #difficulties #doubtful #explain

Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. ↗

— James Madison

#comprises #develops #dreaded #every #germ

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

I thought they would never select an Eastern writer for the Nobel. I was surprised. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#i #never #nobel #select #surprised

You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen. ↗

— John Major

#does #forget #neither #queen #you

I love to watch good actors who surprise and amuse me. ↗

— John Malkovich

#good #good actors #i #i love #love

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle. ↗

— David Mamet

#battle #half #losing #many #surprise

There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#comforts #goes #gold #guinea #high

I've been in on the beginning, the rise, peak, collapse and end of the talking picture. ↗

— Joseph L. Mankiewicz

#beginning #collapse #end #i #peak