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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains. ↗

— Anne Sullivan Macy

#chains #cling #commonplace #desperately #escape

If I like the story and it's well written, and it's a character I want to play and they'll pay me, then I decide to do it. ↗

— William H. Macy

#decide #i #like #me #pay

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear. ↗

— John Madden

#hear #listen #see #want #watch

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention. ↗

— Greg Maddux

#body #daydream #else #everybody #everybody else

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad. ↗

— James Madison

#against #charged #danger #home #liberty

If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens who cultivate their reason. ↗

— James Madison

#criterion #cultivate #gotten #majority #ought

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#everything #financial #himself #his #intrinsic

Kids can be born with potential but unless it's encouraged - pushed, even - I don't think it will ever come to fruition. ↗

— Vanessa Mae

#come #encouraged #even #ever #fruition

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#branches #cracking #existence #me #sterile