#edge

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

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. ↗

— Horace Mann

#every #human #human power #knowledge #power

You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real. ↗

— Dan Marino

#emotion #faking #feel #feeling #game

A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#convey #dignity #discriminated #fact #facts

That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit. ↗

— Willie Mays

#ball player #baseball #baseball player #became #before

I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #confirm #diagnosis #did #does

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth. ↗

— John McCarthy

#knowledge #marxism #misspent #sign #youth

I suppose I look for humor in most situations because it humanizes things; it makes a character much more three-dimensional if there's some kind of humor. Not necessarily laugh-out-loud type of stuff, just a sense that there is a humorous edge to things. I do like that. ↗

— Colm Meaney

#character #edge #humor #humorous #i

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#here #human #human knowledge #knowledge #moonshine

I saw Redeye, and I love being scared and on the edge of my seat. ↗

— Maria Menounos

#being scared #edge #i #i love #love