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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#luck #merely #skill #soldier #word

So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#ask #dawn #dogma #essential #going

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#ask #asks #beauty #deep #i

To be alive at all involves some risk. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

#involves #risk #some

It's a real skill to be able to publicise yourself. ↗

— Matthew Macfadyen

#real #skill #yourself

The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#during #hold #lives #most #obliged

The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless. ↗

— Ernst Mach

#biological #developed #fully #himself #human

Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#australians #because #communicate #culture #effectively

Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#best #child #every #given #literacy

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#darling #doing #everything #fascination #find