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Niccolò Machiavelli
* "A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent."
* "The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go away, they are only postponed to someone else's advantage. Therefore, they made war with Philip and Antiochus in Greece, in order not to have to fight them in Italy."
"When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred."
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James Madison
* "A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty."
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Bill Maher
* "If we're ever going to get anything done in this country, we have to not hate everybody who doesn't agree with us all time." [21 Mar 2014]
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Erin Majors
"A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle."
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Imam Johari Abdul Malik
[Chairman of Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations]
"Before Allah closes our eyes for the last time you will see Islam move from being the second largest religion in America - that's where we are now - to being the first religion in America."
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Robert Mallet
"How many pessimists end up by desiring the things they fear, in
order to prove that they are right?"
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William R. Manchester
"Today's Europeans and Americans who reached the age of awareness after midcentury when the communications revolution lead to expectations of instantaniaty are exasperated by the slow toils of history. They assume that the thunderclap of cause will be swiftly followed by the lightening bolt of effect."
"One would have thought that in the days of peace the progress of women to an ever larger share in the life and work and guidance of the community would have grown, and that, under the violences of war, it would be cast back. The reverse is true. War is the teacher, a hard, stern, efficient teacher. War has taught us to make these vast strides forward towards a far more complete equalisation of the parts to be played by men and women in society."
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary; it fulfils the same function as pain in the human body, it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things."
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Nelson Mandela
"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead." [at Walter Sisulu’s 90th birthday celebration, Johannesburg, May 18, 2002]
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Reginald B Mansell
“A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.”
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Rhonda Marlow
"A smile on your face can be felt on anothers heart."
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"The power to tax is the power to destroy." [McCulloch v. Maryland]
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Gen. George C. Marshall
* "The most important thing for the world today in my opinion is a spiritual regeneration which would reestablish a feeling of good faith among men generally. Discouraged people are in sore need of the inspiration of great principles. Such leadership can be the rallying point against intolerance, against distrust, against that fatal insecurity that leads to war. It is to be hoped that the democratic nations can provide the necessary leadership."
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George R.R. Martin
"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge."
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"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be."
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Abraham Maslow
"Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose."
"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be."
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John C. Maxwell
"The longer you wait to do something that you have decided to do, the less probability of you actually doing it."
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Anne McCaffrey
"When bad fortune occurs, the unresourceful, unimaginative man looks about him to attach the blame to someone else; the resolute accepts misfortune and endeavors to survive, mature, and improve because of it."
"Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future."
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"Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones."
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Robert J. McCracken
"We on this continent should never forget that men first crossed the Atlantic not to find soil for their ploughs but to secure liberty for their souls."
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Frank McGee
"Welcome the task that makes you go beyond yourself." [ascribed]
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Bryant McGill
"Each person you meet is a lesson to be learned."
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Herman Melville
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
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H.L. Mencken
* "Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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John Merline
* "In effect the government has become primarily a massive money-transfer machine, taking $2.6 trillion from some and handing it back out to others." [Investor’s Business Daily, 13 Apr 2014]
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James A. Michener
"If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life."
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John Milius
"Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director."
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Henry Valentine Miller
"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience."
"If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without."
* "In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest."
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John Milton
* "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties." [Areopagitica, published 23 Nov 1644]
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
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Margaret Mitchell
* "Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect."
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Kenji Miyazawa
"We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey."
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Molière
"It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I'm right."
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Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery
* "The United States has broken the second rule of war. That is: don't go fighting with your land army on the mainland in Asia. Rule One is, don't march on Moscow. I developed those two rules myself."
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U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D. N.Y.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D. N.Y.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts."
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Abdur-Rahman Muhammad
[a former member of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)]
* "This loathsome term [Islamophobia] is nothing more than a thought-terminating cliche conceived in the bowels of Muslim think tanks for the purpose of beating down critics."
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José Mujica
president of Uruguay
“The tie is a useless rag that constrains your neck. I’m an enemy of consumerism. Because of this hyperconsumerism, we’re forgetting about fundamental things and wasting human strength on frivolities that have little to do with human happiness.”
“I believe that life is a marvelous adventure. And it’s worthwhile to start again 20 times over.”
“I’m not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.”
“Be yourself and don’t try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don’t expect others to live like me. I want to respect people’s freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don’t share those views.”
“It’s important not to forget anything, but I think looking to tomorrow is necessary. You can’t live off memories. It’s important to look to the past, but also to lose respect for it.”
“The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”
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José Mujica
president of Uruguay
“The tie is a useless rag that constrains your neck. I’m an enemy of consumerism. Because of this hyperconsumerism, we’re forgetting about fundamental things and wasting human strength on frivolities that have little to do with human happiness.”
“I believe that life is a marvelous adventure. And it’s worthwhile to start again 20 times over.”
“I’m not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I’m the son of my history. There have been years when I would have been happy just to have a mattress.”
“Be yourself and don’t try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don’t expect others to live like me. I want to respect people’s freedom, but I defend my freedom. And that comes with the courage to say what you think, even if sometimes others don’t share those views.”
“It’s important not to forget anything, but I think looking to tomorrow is necessary. You can’t live off memories. It’s important to look to the past, but also to lose respect for it.”
“The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”
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Lewis Mumford
* "The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion."
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Edward R. Murrow
"No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."
Edward R. Murrow
"No one can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices."
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"One does what one is; one becomes what one does."
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John Myers
* "A panicked crowd is not going to listen to what you have to say no matter how well reasoned it is argued. Opposing it is like opposing a cattle stampede. If you stand in its path, you will surely be trampled to death."
* "The problem with crowds is they have no ear for reason. Once a contagious fear grabs hold, a crowd loses all sense of objectivity all reason. Truth is meaningless. There is no way on Earth that you are going to reverse it until the hysteria has run its course."
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Caroline Myss
"We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise." -
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