#par

To speak, therefore, of an electric current in the nerves, is to use quite as symbolic an expression as if we compared the action of the nervous principle with light or magnetism. ↗

— Johannes P. Muller

#compared #current #electric #expression #light

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. ↗

— Max Muller

#banished #begins #bible #chapters #clear

'It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#drink #girl #go #i #implies

Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job. ↗

— Carey Mulligan

#back #breakfast #brother #couple #dress

Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#because #behavioural #bunch #conclusion #got

We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#creative #desire #each #method #part

An author departs, he does not die. ↗

— Dinah Maria Mulock

#departs #die #does

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#art #being #essential #failures #life

Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century. ↗

— Lewis Mumford

#goal #limit #line #most #notion