#human

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

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Obsession is the single most wasteful human activity, because with an obsession you keep coming back and back and back to the same question and never get an answer. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. ↗

— Ella Maillart

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You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being. ↗

— Malcolm X

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Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. ↗

— Maimonides

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The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. ↗

— Maimonides

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The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. ↗

— Andre Malraux

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In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit. ↗

— David Mamet

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