#tin

Redistricting is a deeply political process, with incumbents actively seeking to minimize the risk to themselves (via bipartisan gerrymanders) or to gain additional seats for their party (via partisan gerrymanders). ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#additional #bipartisan #deeply #gain #incumbents

I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes. ↗

— Gloria Whelan

#anger #family #getting-along #siblings #anger

He's part of the product and will make no bones about creating that image to bring the value up in his product, bring the value up in everything he touches. ↗

— Marla Maples

#bones #bring #creating #everything #his

I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them. ↗

— David Maraniss

#actually #after #although #bill #bill clinton

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself. ↗

— Gabriel Marcel

#continuously #himself #man #say #thinkers

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. ↗

— Marcel Marceau

#deal #destiny #even #images #moods

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay. ↗

— Vanessa Marcil

#emotions #gave #home #life #me

Skateboarding teaches you how to take a fall properly. If you try to kickflip down some stairs, it might take you thirty tries - and you just learn how to take a tumble out of it without getting hurt. ↗

— Bam Margera

#fall #getting #how #hurt #just

This league is getting big. We have way more 300-pound guys than ever before. That's not to say all the people in athletics who have died are 300-pound guys. There are so many different reasons. ↗

— Steve Mariucci

#before #big #died #different #different reasons

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting. ↗

— Jack Markell

#betting #delaware #east #federal #federal law