#lear

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#down #fit #fool #free #freedom

I wouldn't discount the possibility that the Israelis would act if they came to the conclusion that basically the world was prepared to live with Iran with nuclear weapons. They certainly have the capability by themselves to set back the Iranian nuclear program. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#back #basically #came #capability #certainly

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #been #films #get #history

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ↗

— Bernard Malamud

#learn #life #live #lives #two

Are your kids learning the right lessons about 9/11? Ten years after Osama bin Laden's henchmen murdered thousands of innocents on American soil, too many children have been spoon-fed the thin gruel of progressive political correctness over the stiff antidote of truth. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#after #american #antidote #been #bin

Almost every band has somebody who's the main songwriter and who has a vision, a very clear idea of how a song should be. ↗

— Stephen Malkmus

#band #clear #clear idea #every #how

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for. ↗

— John Malkovich

#given #grateful #i #learn #myself

I learned how to sign because when I was growing up in California in order to get into college you needed two semesters of language to get into a University of California school. ↗

— Camryn Manheim

#california #college #get #growing #growing up

One of the things I've really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are. Clearly in this business you have to contend with a lot of that. ↗

— Aimee Mann

#being #business #clearly #contend #couple

You don't have any communication between the Israelis and the Iranians. You have all sorts of local triggers for conflict. Having countries act on a hair trigger - where they can't afford to be second to strike - the potential for a miscalculation or a nuclear war through inadvertence is simply too high. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#afford #any #between #communication #conflict