#son

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#bet #better #between #calculated #calculated risk

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#country #first #go #president #prison

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #freedom

I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#democratic #equal #free #free society #harmony

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #into

When people who are songwriters say 'That's my property and if you give it away for free then I'll lose my incentive,' then, well, good riddance. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#free #give #good #i #incentive

Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs I would be unhappy about that but if they're trading it I don't mind, obviously if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#cds #collecting #i #like #make

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#defined #definition #done #group #means

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ceased #himself #how #knows #laugh

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#anything #drunk #hold #office #person