#wing

The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assault #capitalism #children #comfortable #conviction

I believe history will come to view 9/11 as an event on par with November 22, 1963, the date on which John F. Kennedy was murdered, cutting short a presidency that was growing ever more promising. Dreams died that day in Dallas; it is easy to imagine the 1960s turning out rather differently had President Kennedy lived. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#come #cutting #dallas #date #day

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. ↗

— Peter Medawar

#changes #growing #growing up #just #leave

My interest in matters more directly concerned with the handling of particles was growing, in the meantime, stimulated by many contacts with people understanding accelerators. ↗

— Simon van der Meer

#contacts #directly #growing #handling #interest

I prefer to sing in the shower 'cause the acoustics are really, really good, I mean, when you're singing against the tile walls then you really hear yourself, hear your voice, you know, throwing itself back at you. ↗

— Thia Megia

#against #back #cause #good #hear

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives. ↗

— Fred Melamed

#agree #god #knowing #live #lives

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem. ↗

— James Merrill

#elements #find #forbidding #greek #helped

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#consists #drawing #like #line #morality

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions. ↗

— James A. Michener

#human #human emotions #i #i love #love