#gene

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#chancellor #federal #foreign #generals #german

I don't think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I'll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#because #become #better #better looking #bit

True, Heaven prohibits certain pleasures; but one can generally negotiate a compromise. ↗

— Moliere

#compromise #generally #heaven #negotiate #pleasures

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. ↗

— James Monroe

#corrupt #degenerate #exercising #ignorant #incapable

Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors. ↗

— Luc Montagnier

#am #another #answer #disease #ethnic

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#generous #most #proudest #strangest #true

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

#commander #decision #decisions #general #good

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt