#ties

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#constant #effort #even #found #increased

Close scrutiny will show that most "crisis situations" are opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are. ↗

— Maxwell Maltz

#close #crisis #either #most #opportunities

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#atrocities #committed #country #states #united

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#democratic #equal #free #free society #harmony

Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#directly #europe #needs #our #own

If the constitutional treaty is rejected it will be back to square one, just at a time when we want Europe to be a more effective force for good in the world, when we need to buttress ourselves against the pressures and insecurities of globalization. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#back #constitutional #effective #europe #force

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear a direct hit in some vulnerable part of their political anatomy. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#anatomy #because #direct #dirty #experience

What is in the Constitution is the burning desire and aspiration of all the people of Vietnam. So for the moment, we don't think about opposition parties. ↗

— Nong Duc Manh

#aspiration #burning #burning desire #constitution #desire

People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#celebrities #country #culture #even #fat

Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

#close #never #probabilities #really #sometimes