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Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.
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Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.
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Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
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Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Most people, no doubt, when they espouse human rights, make their own mental reservations about the proper application of the word ''human.''
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Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
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Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other.
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Most sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
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Most subjects at universities are taught for no other purpose than that they may be re-taught when the students become teachers.
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Most umpires are good about letting the argument go, but you can only go on for so long, or go so far. If you don't leave it alone after a minute or two, you're in trouble. They want to keep the game moving, so they've got to throw you out. I had trouble leaving it alone, I guess.
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Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
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Most writers steal a good thing when they can, and when 'Tis safely got 'Tis worth the winning. The worst of 't is we now and then detect em, they ever dream that we suspect em.
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Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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