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As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create. ↗

— David Mamet

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The writer's language is to some degree the product of his own action; he is both the historian and the agent of his own language. ↗

— Paul de Man

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One other thing, if it's possible, as songwriters, you should also develop yourself as record producers. ↗

— Barry Mann

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What I try to do is produce an atmosphere where musicians want to invest in what they do and give to the recording. I hire those musicians who I know will play something creative and interesting. ↗

— Herbie Mann

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The chaos can act as a magnifier of quantum fluctuations so that they can produce sizable effects in the world around us. But we know that that can happen often. ↗

— Murray Gell-Mann

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Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. ↗

— Marya Mannes

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I don't find any kind of tension very productive, I find it destructive, actually. ↗

— Shirley Manson

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