Douglas MacArthur (11)
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
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Norman MacCaig (6)
I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.
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George MacDonald (12)
Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
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Ernst Mach (2)
If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us.
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Niccolo Machiavelli (23)
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
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Harold MacMillan (6)
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
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Agnes Macphail (2)
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
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James Madison (27)
A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.
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Maurice Maeterlinck (10)
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.
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Gustav Mahler (4)
The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.
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Ella Maillart (6)
The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.
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Maimonides (3)
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
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Malcolm X (21)
Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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Andre Malraux (3)
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Thomas Malthus (4)
Population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every 25 years or increases in a geometrical ratio.
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Maxwell Maltz (4)
If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.
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Og Mandino (10)
Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.
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Horace Mann (11)
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
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Thomas Mann (11)
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
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Marya Mannes (5)
In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.
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Katherine Mansfield (3)
Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different.
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Robert Mapplethorpe (10)
To make pictures big is to make them more powerful.
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Gabriel Marcel (2)
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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Jacques Maritain (4)
A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things.
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Don Marquis (18)
Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
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George C. Marshall (4)
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
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Alfred Marshall (2)
Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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Thurgood Marshall (2)
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.
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William Moulton Marston (3)
Every crisis offers you extra desired power.
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Jose Marti (7)
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
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Dean Martin (3)
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
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Mary Martin (2)
The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.
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Walter Martin (2)
A key to strengthening spiritual muscles and enduring hardship is finding strength in the Word of God.
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James Martineau (2)
Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
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Karl Marx (21)
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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John Masefield (2)
Coming in solemn beauty like slow old tunes of Spain.
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Abraham Maslow (7)
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Henri Matisse (7)
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
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W. Somerset Maugham (29)
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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Andre Maurois (14)
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
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Rollo May (6)
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.
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Jonathan Mayhew (2)
But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
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Mary McCarthy (4)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.
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Linda McCartney (2)
But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.
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Phyllis McGinley (6)
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.
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David O. McKay (3)
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
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William McKinley (2)
That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.
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John McKinley (2)
Technology has been, and always will be, my one true passion professionally.
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Norman McLaren (2)
Animation is not the art of drawings that move but the art of movements that are drawn.
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Mignon McLaughlin (21)
A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.
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Marshall McLuhan (19)
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Peter McWilliams (4)
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
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Margaret Mead (18)
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
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Golda Meir (14)
I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.
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Harry Melling (2)
I am auditioning again - getting back to theatre would be amazing.
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Bernard Meltzer (6)
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
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Herman Melville (13)
Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death.
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Karl A. Menninger (3)
Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
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Freddie Mercury (6)
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
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George Meredith (4)
A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.
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Ethel Merman (9)
I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.
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Thomas Merton (12)
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
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Alice Meynell (3)
Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.
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Michelangelo (16)
I cannot live under pressures from patrons, let alone paint.
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James A. Michener (4)
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
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John Stuart Mill (11)
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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Henry Miller (23)
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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Merton Miller (5)
Arbitrage proof has since been widely used throughout finance and economics.
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C. Wright Mills (2)
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
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A. A. Milne (5)
Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
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John Milton (5)
Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
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Ho Chi Minh (3)
You can kill ten of our men for every one we kill of yours. But even at those odds, you will lose and we will win.
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Maria Mitchell (8)
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
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Margaret Mitchell (4)
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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Moliere (15)
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Claude Monet (5)
Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.
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Marilyn Monroe (53)
A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
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Ashley Montagu (6)
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
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Eugenio Montale (6)
However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
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Maria Montessori (5)
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
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James Montgomery (2)
Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.
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Lucy Maud Montgomery (2)
In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
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Dwight L. Moody (8)
Death may be the King of terrors... but Jesus is the King of kings!
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Thomas Moore (7)
Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.
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Henry Moore (2)
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
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Marianne Moore (5)
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
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Thomas More (5)
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone All her lovely companions Are faded and gone.
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Julia Morgan (2)
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
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J. P. Morgan (2)
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Charles Morgan (2)
There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved: It is God's finger on man's shoulder.
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Christopher Morley (15)
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
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William Morris (6)
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
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Jim Morrison (14)
I think in art, but especially in films, people are trying to confirm their own existences.
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Grandma Moses (2)
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.
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Robert Motherwell (2)
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2)
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
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Malcolm Muggeridge (8)
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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John Muir (13)
Take a course in good water and air and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone no harm will befall you.
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Max Muller (3)
While the river of life glides along smoothly, it remains the same river only the landscape on either bank seems to change.
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Lewis Mumford (8)
Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
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Ethel Watts Mumford (3)
God gave us our relatives thank God we can choose our friends.
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Edvard Munch (7)
For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.
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Timothy Murphy (2)
The current medical records system is this: Room after room after room in a hospital filled with paper files.
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George Murray (4)
Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it's harder to write. It's harder to keep the respect of the reader too.
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Edward R. Murrow (3)
We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
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