#ture

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#art #dead #father #his #inclination

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#me #more #movies #pictures #stories

We need strong public health institutions to respond to any challenge. We need to deal with critical infrastructure. The reality is that very little money has flowed to communities to help our first responders; to help our hospitals; to help the public health infrastructure. ↗

— Robert Menendez

#challenge #communities #critical #deal #first

One of our key strategies has been to restructure traditional high schools into small learning communities with personalized attention and a range of options. ↗

— Thomas Menino

#been #communities #high #high schools #into

The mixture of the Trinidadian people and the Indian people has caused a new culture to emerge. ↗

— Ismail Merchant

#culture #emerge #indian #indian people #mixture

You know, I designed the Queen crest. I simply combined all the creatures that represent our star signs-and I don't even believe in astrology. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#believe #combined #creatures #crest #designed

Caricature is rough truth. ↗

— George Meredith

#rough #truth

The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature. ↗

— Paul de Man

#affirms #after #ambivalence #both #cannot

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#binds #common #compassion #future #hope

Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive. ↗

— Bernard de Mandeville

#actions #bad #because #built #does