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The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
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The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.
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The most difficult story that I've ever been involved in breaking on any of my shows was 'The Constant' episode of 'Lost,' which was when Desmond was consciousness-traveling.
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The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
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The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
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The most important truth which has ever been uttered, and the greatest discovery ever made in the moral world.
Source: Referring to Luke 17:33, Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life shall find it (the wording used by Housman). -
The most money we have ever been able to get appropriated for the juvenile justice bills was $55 million a year, about one-tenth of what was necessary.
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The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
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The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
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The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.
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The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
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The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
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The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent.
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The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.
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The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed.
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The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
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The multitude which is not brought to act as a unity, is confusion. That unity which has not its origin in the multitude is tyranny.
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The myths have always condemned those who ''looked back.'' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.
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The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
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