#vent

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#afraid #also #bit #desire #something

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty. ↗

— Maimonides

#charity #poverty #preventing

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others. ↗

— John Major

#dollars #factories #industries #into #inventions

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. ↗

— John Major

#authentic #back #conservative #conventional #course

What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#after #eat #end #get #joy

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#intervention #keen #only #peace #people

You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home. ↗

— Og Mandino

#events #get #going #know #never

What we have to do is reinvent the idea of Europe. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#idea #reinvent

Eventually you get bored and you want to work. ↗

— Kate Mara

#eventually #get #want #work #you