#ann

I do not sing nor play, but I adore music, particularly Chopin. I like him because I cannot understand him. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#difficulties #great #where #willingness

You learn, just as you learn good manners, how to approach things with a certain amount of diplomacy. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#approach #certain #diplomacy #good #good manners

We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#attribute #cannot #either #fortune #virtue

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#destroyed #done #either #feared #greatly

The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#arms #cannot #composite #every #follow

Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development. ↗

— Norman Macleod

#cannot #character #character development #children #complex

Our material eye cannot see that a stupid chauvinism is driving us from one noisy, destructive, futile agitation to another. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

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