Quotes 1661 till 1680 of 3662.
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Marvelous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
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Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.
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Matrimony is the high sea for which no compass has yet to be invented.
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.
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Medical care is one of the only sectors in which Americans are asked to make significant, long-term decisions without knowing the exact price of those decisions up front. Americans deserve to make informed decisions about their medical options.
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
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Medicine is not only a science; it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters; it deals with the very processes of life, which must be understood before they may be guided.
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Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable....
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
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Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven.
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Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.
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Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
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Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.
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Men are like sheep, of which a flock is more easily driven than a single one.
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