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In every society in human history, including the United States, those in power seek to imbue themselves with the attributes of religion and patriotism as a way of getting greater support for their policy and insulating themselves from any criticism. ↗

— George J. Mitchell

#attributes #criticism #every #getting #greater

That is not all I need. I need dogs. A house filled with dogs and a smart, funny, kind, loving girlfriend or wife. ↗

— Moby

#filled #funny #girlfriend #house #i

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#painful #punishment #religion #soothing

I've worked on films where the budgets are almost limitless and you're in trailers that are bigger than a hotel room. You're taken care of and the food is amazing, the quality of the job is amazing and then you work on smaller things but it never dictates my happiness or my willingness to go to work. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#amazing #bigger #budgets #care #dictates

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#most #regional #response #sexual #since

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. ↗

— Ricardo Montalban

#aside #brothers #cast #country #get

Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#completely #nothing #once #past #smell

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind? ↗

— Maria Montessori

#always #antiquated #behind #conceived #development

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'. ↗

— Alan Moore

#anything #called #carl #course #example

I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood. ↗

— Mandy Moore

#college #fluently #french #go #i