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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#confirmed #does #establishment #even #experiment

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

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Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues. ↗

— Thomas Menino

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If you take the more general role of going to local stations around the country in Montana or South Carolina or wherever, and start in the local news, it's a lot more difficult to get to the stories that you want to really cover. ↗

— Maria Menounos

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