#were

When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#chain #different #different person #early #exception

I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #being #carried #grounds #i

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#allowed #because #censored #doing #just

The radio even weren't allowed to say there was a Holocaust and people were being killed right, left and center in these terrible camps. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#being #camps #center #even #holocaust

It used to be that we disagreed over the basic facts we were fighting over, and we had different opinions about them. Now I think we accept different sources of authority. ... And people can establish credibility on their own say-so as long as nobody follows the trail and calls them out on it. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#accept #authority #basic #calls #credibility

If my life were a song it'd be called 'Here I Am' because here I am - I mean, I'm Thia and I'm here to me me, I'm here to express myself musically which I find is the best way to express myself. ↗

— Thia Megia

#because #best #best way #called #express

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. ↗

— James Madison

#controls #external #govern #government #greatest

My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#bombs #could #exploding #get #kidnapped

This has been a learning experience for me. I also thought that privacy was something we were granted in the Constitution. I have learned from this when in fact the word privacy does not appear in the Constitution. ↗

— Bill Maher

#appear #been #constitution #does #experience

We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#classes #difficult #egypt #like #must