#tie

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#democrats #despair #elections #favor #gloomy

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#accidents #biological #fathers #necessities #social

Life in the twentieth century is like a parachute jump: you have to get it right the first time. ↗

— Margaret Mead

#first #first time #get #jump #life

The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole. ↗

— James Meade

#expanding #fields #finds #frontiers #further

They weren't impatient for the boys to turn into cartoons again. They awarded sympathy, gave compassion. Because deep down they had found parts of themselves in the characters. You said it George. ↗

— Audrey Meadows

#awarded #because #cartoons #characters #compassion

Everyone except the far right wing of the Republican Party realizes that oil, gas and coal burning are the main activities that have sent the climate into bigger floods, droughts, hurricanes, and El Ninos. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#bigger #burning #climate #coal #droughts

I am not sure how much Dudley will feature just because of the grand scale of the film and the fact that there are so many stories and characters to tie up. I haven't seen the film yet but I think it will be a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but it was nice just to round it off and give it some closure. ↗

— Harry Melling

#because #characters #closure #dudley #fact

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking. ↗

— Christopher Meloni

#brought #daughter #great #greatly #into

Truth is the silliest thing under the sun. Try to get a living by the Truth and go to the Soup Societies. Heavens! Let any clergyman try to preach the Truth from its very stronghold, the pulpit, and they would ride him out of his church on his own pulpit bannister. ↗

— Herman Melville

#church #clergyman #get #go #heavens

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#burn #damage #might #universities #worse