#rot

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#american #american life #basic #became #britain

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#hereafter #may #nation #national #prosperity

There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#benefited #country #never #protracted #war

I'm the guy who wrote The Authority Song. Did they think I was kidding? Did they think it was only a song to entertain? ↗

— John Mellencamp

#did #entertain #guy #i #kidding

De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#de niro #hero #horror #i #intensity

In my own defense, I wrote a one-man show, and that to me was more where I fit. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#fit #i #me #more #my own

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#bruce #characters #clooney #doing #everyone

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#caricatures #cousins #especially #every #every man

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#chief #contribution #god #human #human thought

There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#bad #devil #everybody #family #good