#owed

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#determining #endowed #his #man #own

Law is stable; the societies we are speaking of are progressive. The greater or less happiness of a people depends on the degree of promptitude with which the gulf is narrowed. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#depends #greater #gulf #happiness #law

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#ant #cope #crushes #endowed #greater

We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wasn't dead, he was sucking his thumb. God had him safe and sound. He is a miracle. He is so healthy, so perfect, and God has really, really blessed us. ↗

— Barbara Mandrell

#blessed #dead #go #god #had

Things have slowed down considerably since the new series has started airing and I am currently looking for work. It has been a nice year-long vacation nonetheless. ↗

— Rob Mariano

#am #been #considerably #currently #down

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #been #day #days #fiction

Maybe the preoccupation with technological progress has overshadowed our concern with human progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#human #human progress #maybe #our #overshadowed

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed. ↗

— Karl Marx

#like #love #men #never #other

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was. ↗

— Eric Massa

#familiar #i #myself #never #should

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. ↗

— Kurt Masur

#allowed #also #devoted #every #felt