#form

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary. ↗

— Mary MacLane

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Turn where we may, within, around, the voice of great events is proclaiming to us, Reform, that you may preserve! ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#events #great #may #preserve #proclaiming

The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#always #art #art form #base #based

The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#average #average man #conceptions #conditions #desire

I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#any #being #brad #brad pitt #chasing

We need more people speaking out. This country is not overrun with rebels and free thinkers. It's overrun with sheep and conformists. ↗

— Bill Maher

#country #free #more #more people #need

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#experiences #form #future #future life #gave

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#book #books #create #form #i

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

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We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure. ↗

— Jena Malone

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