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Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.
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Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
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More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.
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More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
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Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lines - those lines that seem to go nowhere. Nothing connects them, until they get out in the real world. Then they connect just fine.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.
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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.
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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
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Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.
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Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.
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Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.
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Most people go, I wish for world peace. But chaos has a place in balancing out the light and the dark in the world. I don't know if I would wish for world peace.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Most people yearn to contribute, make the world a better place and have success.... all at the same time... Make sure to give your business a background, a mission and a story. That might be the most important step part of any venture. And remember, giving may be the best investment you ever make.
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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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