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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Socrates didn't care to visit the theater, as a rule, except when the plays of Euripides (which some think, he himself had helped to compose), were performed. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

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Any subject is good for opera if the composer feels it so intently he must sing it out. ↗

— Gian Carlo Menotti

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Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way. ↗

— Paul Merton

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Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself. ↗

— Arthur Miller

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A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. ↗

— Todor Zhivkov

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We are proud to say we are racist and hate to see Whites fighting each other. I oppose the Wars. ↗

— Tom Metzger

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It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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