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  • Norman Mailer Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Ezra Pound Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Cass Sunstein Masterful politicians and effective agents of change tend to succeed by singling out and making salient some aspect of a nation's self-understanding, sparking a sense of recognition - and ultimately moving voters in their favor. Obama made it into an art form.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Caroline Knapp Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk beauty, and to risk beauty is to risk desirability, and to risk desirability is to risk entitlement to sexuality and love and self-esteem.
    Caroline Knapp
    American writer and columnist
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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
    Alfred Marshall
    British economist (1842 - 1924)
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  • Alfred Marshall Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benefits from material things, or to receive them at a future time.
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  • John Wooden Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Alan Turing Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Karl Kraus Matrimony is the union of meanness and martyrdom.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Jim Rohn Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Barry Gibb Maurice would prance into a room, you know, and his presence was immediate.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • John Morley Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Bette Davis May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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