#pose

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#consciousness #even #exacerbate #final #intensify

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#consider #correction #delinquent #divine #duty

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it. ↗

— Malcolm X

#blind #face #face reality #matter #reality

In the 1970s, 'The Boys on the Bus' exposed how a clubby pack of male political reporters ruled the road to the White House and shaped the news. Four decades later, an outsider gal from Alaska has commandeered the 2012 media bus - and left Beltway journalism insiders eating her dust. ↗

— Michelle Malkin

#beltway #bus #decades #dust #eating

Actors generally get to do things you probably shouldn't do in real life - well, at least as much as one might like to or be tempted to. Though I suppose a lot of actors just go ahead and do it, don't they? ↗

— John Malkovich

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I still have a temper, I suppose. ↗

— John Malkovich

#still #suppose #temper

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. ↗

— John Malkovich

#controlled #doing #everyone #great #great truth

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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