Quotes 2241 till 2260 of 4584.
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
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Management is nothing more than motivating other people.
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Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols - it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
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Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
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Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
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Many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights.
The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 197 -
Many of the people that you lay off will have closer relationships with the people who stay than you do, so treat them with an appropriate level of respect.
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Many openly show discontentment with their looks, but few with their intelligence. I, however, assure you there are many more plain minds than faces.
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Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
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Many people spend more time in planning the wedding than they do in planning the marriage.
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Many people would sooner die than think. In fact they do.
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Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
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Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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Mars is far more attractive as an outpost colony for earthlings than the moon is.
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Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
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