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Many attempts had been made by colonial legislatures to cut off or to tax the importation of slaves.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason: they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. Those works, therefore, are the most valuable, that set our thinking faculties in the fullest operation. understand them.
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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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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 think that if they were only in some other place, or had some other job, they would be happy. Well, that is doubtful. So get as much happiness out of what you are doing as you can and don't put off being happy until some future date.
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Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.
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Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
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Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.
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Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious - friendship and learning.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on Earth.
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Mars has been flown by, orbited, smacked into, radar inspected, and rocketed onto, as well as bounced upon, rolled over, shoveled, drilled into, baked, and even laser blasted.
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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.
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
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May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.
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May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
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Maybe Oliver Stone doesn't lend himself well to remakes or sequels, because he does them so well the first time.
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride. But if you can do that -- well, lucky you.
Source: American Pastoral (1997)
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