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When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.


Logan Marshall-Green


#directed #father #going #kid #mother

I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.


Douglas MacArthur


#destructiveness #disputes #few #few men #foe

When I am in the Scottish Parliament chamber, I often feel the need to sit for the entire debate. It's only courteous to listen to what everyone has to say, although I often find myself desperate to say something but too scared to stand up in case I regret it.


Margo MacDonald


#am #case #chamber #courteous #debate

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.


Shirley MacLaine


#could #desires #dimensions #experiences #i

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.


Albert Camus


#culture #destiny #face #men #their

Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.


Charles Mackay


#almost #become #been #cause #delusion

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.


Sydney Madwed


#architect #blame #builds #built #changing

To the totality of purposes of the perfect Law there belong the abandonment, depreciation, and restraint of desires in so far as possible.


Maimonides


#belong #depreciation #desires #far #law

The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.


Henry James Sumner Maine


#art #codes #diffusion #discovery #doubtless






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