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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
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Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
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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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Memories are contrary things; if you quit chasing them and turn your back, they often return on their own.
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Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
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Memorizing dialogue has always come easy and quickly to me. My wife Eileen is also very helpful. She gives me choices, and asks me questions, and runs my lines with me.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves (2010) 38 -
Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.
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Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
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Memory, joy, are intuitions; and even mathematical propositions become intuitions, for education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.
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Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
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Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.
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Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
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Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.
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Men and women belong to different species, and communication between them is a science still in its infancy.
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Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
Source: The Middle Ground (2013) 103
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