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Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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M so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.
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Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper.
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
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Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.
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Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
― St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622) -
Make it impossible for [the authority] to operate within the system as usual... making it impossible for him simply to strike back without thought and with all his strength.
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Making movies is my vacation. All the rest - the traveling about to premiers, the social life, the endless arguments with producers who don't understand me - that is the work.
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Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Man is a masterpiece of creation if for no other reason than that, all the weight of evidence for determinism notwithstanding, he believes he has free will.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
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Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate comprehensivity. Coping with the totality of Spaceship Earth and universe is ahead for all of us.
Source: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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