#sent

So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#causes #coming #cultivated #essential #experience

My parents offered me the idea of ceilinglessness. There was no limit in terms of what was possible; no messages sent to me to say that I couldn't do anything. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#i #idea #limit #me #messages

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it. ↗

— Dick Morris

#against #break #civil #evenly #gay

The future is keeping you out of the present time. ↗

— Van Morrison

#keeping #out #present #present time #time

The fire in the belly is essential, otherwise you become Michael Buble - famous and meaningless. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#belly #essential #famous #fire #meaningless

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound... These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president. ↗

— George Tenet

#believe #every #had #him #included

I've come up with another formulation about style: that it's essentially a manifestation of a certain habitual set of limitations. It's what a composer does NOT do that defines a style. ↗

— James Tenney

#another #certain #come #composer #defines

Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America. ↗

— Johann Most

#america #anarchist #country #ever #fortunately

I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings a lot of the time. ↗

— Andrew Motion

#feelings #i #i do #lot #people

We begin the path toward defeating Mexico's real adversary, who represents authoritarianism and the worst antidemocratic practice, who represents a return to corruption as a system and impunity as conviction. That adversary is Pena Nieto and his party. ↗

— Josefina Vazquez Mota

#authoritarianism #begin #conviction #corruption #defeating