Quotes 8181 till 8200 of 15856.
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
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Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?
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Modeling gave me an opportunity to be someone I'm not each day.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains - except kill it.
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Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals.
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Modern sociology is virtually an attempt to take up the larger program of social analysis and interpretation which was implicit in Adam Smith's moral philosophy, but which was suppressed for a century by prevailing interest in the technique of the production of wealth.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Mohammed al-Qahtani was not alleged to be a leader of the Sept. 11 plot. He was not trained as a pilot. If he was involved, he was one of the 'muscle' hijackers.
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Monetary policy is a blunt tool which certainly affects the distribution of income and wealth, although whether the net effect is to increase or reduce inequality is not clear.
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Money couldn't buy friends, but you get a better class of enemy.
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Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.
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Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
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