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We have had virtually unlimited access to abortion for nearly twenty years. Yet during that same period, more and more women and children have slipped into poverty. ↗

— Robert Casey

#access #children #during #had #into

An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#bad #easier #give #good #good habits

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#dignity #enough #frank #generous #independent

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#build #call #day #develop #forth

What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#any #become #been #book #brothers

In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#city #country #darkness #familiar #friendly

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains. ↗

— Bill Mauldin

#cartoons #conception #draw #encouraged #gag

Like I've always said, love wouldn't be blind if the braille weren't so damned much fun. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#blind #braille #damned #fun #i

But everything you do in life has a downside. ↗

— Melissa Auf der Maur

#everything #life #you

To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others. ↗

— Francois Mauriac

#love #miracle #others #see #someone