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Quotes
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"We are not retreating; we are advancing in another direction."
General Douglas MacArthur
There is no security on this earth, only opportunity.
General Douglas McArthur
"No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men."
Thomas Babington Macaulay English historian (1800-1859)
"They (Americans) were the first self-constituted, self-created people in the history of the world."
Archibald MacLeish poet
"If I'm not good enough to be a friend Than, you need to like your self first Cause there is nothing wrong with me".
Karen S.Magee poet
"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Naguib, Mahfouz
"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else."
Andre Malraux, French novelist, archaeologist, art theorist, political activist, and public official
My girlfriend came up to me the other day and introduced me to one of her male friends, and at first I didn't mind, since I'm not the jealous type. I just wish she hadn't started calling him 'Sweetie' and living with him and having his kids and marrying him and stuff. It's really starting to make me wonder if she wants a future with me or not.
Derek Maness
"It is more difficult, and it calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one."
Horace Mann (1796-1859) American Educator, 1st secretary Mass. Board of Education
"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens -- and then everybody disagrees."
Boris Marshalov
"A day without sunshine is like, you know.......... night."
Steve Martin
"If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. Also, you will have betrayed your community in failing to make your contribution."
Rollo May (1909-1994) US psychoanalyst "The Courage to Create," 1975.
Freedom does not come automatically; it is achieved. And it is not gained in a single bound; it must be achieved each day.
Rollo May (Man's Search for Himself)
"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
Charles H. Mayo (1865-1939) U.S. surgeon
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
William Gibbs McAdoo American government official(1863-1941).
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it important."
Eugene McCarthy (1916-) US politician, teacher
"I love boxing. Where else do two grown men prance around in satin underwear, fighting over a belt?... The one who wins gets a purse. They do it in gloves. It's the accessory connection I love."
John McGovern
"Those who fear the imagination condemn it: something childish, they say, something monsterish misbegotten. Not all of us dream awake. But those of us who do have no choice."
Patricia McKillip (1948-) Science Fiction Writer
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."
Margaret Mead
"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it."
Thomas Merton, quoted by Monica Furlong Merton, Harper & Row Magazine
It is not true that life is one damn thing after another - it's one damn thing over and over.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American Poet
"In a 'USA Today' interview, Vanna White said since her son has been born, she wants to work less. Vanna, you turn *tiles* for a living. If you worked any less, you'd be the triangle player in the 'K.C. and the Sunshine Band.'"
Dennis Miller
"Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day."
Ronnie Milsap
"One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries."
A. A. Milne
English poet John Milton wrote, "No man who know aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free."
"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong."
Wilson Mizner, American playwright (1876-1933).
"I am following Nature without being able to grasp her... I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers."
Claude Monet, French artist
"Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Bring a baby to any grown-up -- even the gruffest or most inhibited -- and watch what happens. Without exception, they will do something to try and make the baby laugh. Psychologists, anthropologists, and other experts have theories about why this is so. For me it's enough to believe that whenever a baby laughs, our humanity is somehow exalted."
Jack Moore, U.S. comedy writer,
"Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side in the course of mankind if our creeds agree?"
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
"You are only as strong as your purpose, therefore let us choose reasons to act that are big bold righteous and eternal."
Barry Munro
"A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad, mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance."
Jean "Iris" Murdoch, Irish-born writer
"I understand life isn't fair, but why couldn't it just once be unfair in my favor?"
Christy Murphy, comedian
"Most of us probably feel we couldn't be free without newspapers, and that is the real reason we want the newspapers to be free."
Edward R. Murrow American broadcast journalist (1908-1965)
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things."
Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese warrior and strategist
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