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Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
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Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
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Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
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Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.
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Most people seek after what they do not possess and are enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
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Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
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Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
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Most problems are best solved privately, not through government. There's a problem of discourtesy in the world, which is best handled through social norms, which are indispensable. But you wouldn't want the government to be mandating courtesy.
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Most reporters I've spoken with want very badly to understand what is happening to her, but the why is really very unimportant. That is just not the point of the show. The journey is how she will deal with this situation, and how it will change her life.
About her character on Wonderfalls, in Wonderfalls Spills Torrent of Wit by John Crooks at Zap2it.com (2004) -
Most speakers speak ten minutes too long.
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Mostly in movies an actor has to come to a mark, an X, and deliver his line - but that's so artificial, that's not how people really behave.
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Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
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Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now you have a motivated idiot.
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