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The way of the world is to make laws, but follow custom. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Man cannot produce a single work without the assistance of the slow, assiduous, corrosive worm of thought. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Slowly poetry becomes visual because it paints images, but it is also musical: it unites two arts into one. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant? ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I was following my muse and I was very fortunate in having good people around me and it turned out to be a pretty good recording in my opinion. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

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When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows. ↗

— Robert Moog

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You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

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