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We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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We are not yet at the point where our size, our being the drama industry, is sufficient to support full time professional crews, and that is very very important. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

#crews #drama #full #important #industry

Recounting their histories, people often sound like interested bystanders to their own lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#interested #like #lives #often #own

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#often #opportunity #our #robs #tardiness

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view. ↗

— Ernst Mach

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When you disarm the people, you commence to offend them and show that you distrust them either through cowardice or lack of confidence, and both of these opinions generate hatred. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

#commence #confidence #cowardice #disarm #distrust

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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Most of the women who have offered themselves for public office over the years have done so, I believe, more because of the 'dirt' than in spite of it. ↗

— Agnes Macphail

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