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

— Maria Montessori

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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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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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We must have ideals and try to live up to them, even if we never quite succeed. Life would be a sorry business without them. With them it's grand and great. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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I have spent too long training myself to speak with an American accent, it's ingrained. I spend 16 hours a day on set speaking with an American accent. Now, when I try to speak with an Aussie accent, I just sound like a caricature of myself. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

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All I am saying is I will be a senator - should there be any special circumstance where the political forces would believe that there might be a need for my service, I would consider it. ↗

— Mario Monti

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Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past. ↗

— James Montgomery

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As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust. ↗

— Marianne Moore

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