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Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

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One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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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

#arbitrary #arrest #avoid #complete #educational

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

— James Montgomery

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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists. ↗

— Frederica Montseny

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Hard to be a physics major at Rice University if you have flunked calculus. ↗

— Elizabeth Moon

#flunked #hard #major #physics #rice

Many of the railroad evils were inherent in the situation; they were explained by the fact that both managers and public were dealing with a new agency whose laws they did not completely understand. ↗

— John Moody

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People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. ↗

— John Moody

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

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