#wit

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

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By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#along #because #call #couples #each

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. ↗

— Horace Mann

#attempting #cold #cold iron #desire #hammering

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. ↗

— Horace Mann

#bring #buy #children #his #house

If what you do is being threatened as a profession, that could be scary. But that's the same reason why I walked out on stage many times after receiving death threats. I couldn't live without doing what I wanted to do. So at the same time I have to be willing to die for it. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#being #could #death #die #doing

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness. ↗

— Katherine Mansfield

#learned #meaning #meaning of #once #read

Alan Ginsberg was fabulous. The man is so filled with energy. He's 65 years old and he's just loaded with energy and charm and wit and his mind is constantly racing. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#charm #constantly #energy #fabulous #filled

One of the things about acting is it allows you to live other people's lives without having to pay the price. ↗

— Robert De Niro

#acting #allows #having #live #lives

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#heart #joy #joyous #kindness #laugh

Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all. ↗

— Ed Markey

#america #comfort #compromising #could #economy