#tent

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#attention #correct #each #his #improve

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife. ↗

— David Mamet

#drama #extent #our #respond #which

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy. ↗

— Og Mandino

#apply #become #cries #efforts #grain

My music has always been strong in melodic content. ↗

— Chuck Mangione

#been #content #melodic #music #strong

The only description for Nolan in the script was that he's a very bad dresser. I put on a red windbreaker and every other ugly, ill-fitting thing I could dig out. He was potentially written as a clean-cut nerd, but I wanted a darker spin. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

#clean-cut #could #darker #description #dig

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict

Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. ↗

— Horace Mann

#determination #give #happen #let us #make

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#amount #certain #democracy #human #implies

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#armor #bend #catalyst #cracks #hero

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#exact #extent #measures #method #object