Quotes 2501 till 2520 of 4582.
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Men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness.
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Metaphors are much more tenacious than facts.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.
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Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that which enables a man to know the truth and that which enables him to die for the truth.
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Mind is the Master - power that molds and makes, and Man is Mind, and ever more he takes the Tool of Thought, and shaping what he wills, brings forth a thousand joys, a thousand ills - He thinks in secret and it comes to pass; Environment is but his looking-glass.
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Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
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Misspending a man's time is a kind of self-homicide.
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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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Mix a conviction with a man and something happens.
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Modern man drives a mortgaged car over a bond-financed highway on credit-card gas.
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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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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 man's capacity for destruction is quixotic evidence of humanity's capacity for reconstruction. The powerful technological agents we have unleashed against the environment include many of the agents we require for its reconstruction.
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Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.
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Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
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Money is a poor man's credit card.
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