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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections. ↗

— George Montgomery

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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis. ↗

— George Montgomery

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

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