#su

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. ↗

— Karl Marx

#activity #ends #history #individual #individual person

I was little impressed with this rough and ready way of persuading people to renew their contracts and decided that I was now quite free of any obligations. ↗

— Pietro Mascagni

#contracts #decided #free #i #impressed

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it. ↗

— John Masefield

#dies #generous #insufferable #made #man

Independence is not a whim or an ambition. It is the necessary condition of our survival as an ethnic group. ↗

— Aslan Maskhadov

#condition #ethnic #group #independence #necessary

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#barriers #business #business model #clones #competitors

People say we are survivors but I don't see us as survivors of anything. We are still here, there's nothing that's come and tried to dislodge us. We just go about our business. ↗

— Dave Mason

#anything #business #come #dislodge #go

I had a very special family life. My mother and father made sure when we were home, we were part of the family, not a TV star. And the other thing: my father was fully employed while I was doing the series. ↗

— Jerry Mathers

#employed #family #family life #father #fully

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#amazing #art #cultural #find #melting

Once it was suggested that Saddam Hussein might give his weaponry to terrorists, or might use weapons himself in the region, then it became hard for the Democrats to say, 'Well, that can't happen.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#democrats #give #happen #hard #himself

I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.' ↗

— Chris Matthews

#august #been #college #every #flash