#ties

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. ↗

— Frank Luntz

#client #felt #i #i am #independent

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#couple #early #even #friends #get

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#difficulties #great #where #willingness

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. ↗

— Maimonides

#cannot #degree #distance #each #every

It is one of man's curious idiosyncrasies to create difficulties for the pleasure of resolving them. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#curious #difficulties #idiosyncrasies #man #pleasure

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#certainly #doubt #engine #leave #lodged

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