#shin

This circulating medium has a natural tendency to lessen by degrees the value and the use of money, and finally to render it powerless; and consequently to sweep away all the crushing masses of fraud, iniquity, cruelty, corruption and imposition that are built upon it. ↗

— Josiah Warren

#built #circulating #consequently #corruption #cruelty

Watch me when people say deaf and dumb, or deaf mute, and I give them a look like you might get if you called Denzel Washington the wrong name. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#deaf #denzel #denzel washington #dumb #get

I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#around #artist #center #come #context

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#being #illusion #life #like #nothing

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#front #furnishing #home #i #keep

Our government has failed us. From the billion-dollar bailouts to the 'stimulus' package that failed to stimulate to the government takeover of health care, you cried 'Stop!'... but the Democratic Majority in Washington has refused to listen. ↗

— Kevin McCarthy

#care #cried #democratic #failed #government

I have been very independent from day I arrived in Washington. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#been #day #i #independent #very

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#being #bunch #campaigning #convention #corps

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#congress #entitled #fact #irritates #live

The commercial broadcasters have tremendous influence in Washington, D.C., for a couple of reasons. First, they're extremely rich and they have lots of money and they have had for a long time, so they can give money to politicians, which gets their attention. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#broadcasters #commercial #couple #extremely #first