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And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it. ↗

— Brian Lumley

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I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen. ↗

— Martin Luther

#amen #anything #cannot #conscience #go

I am told that the clinical definition of insanity is the tenancy to do the same thing over and over again and expect different results. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

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But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#god #life #planet #spirit #unites

I think clever people think that poor people are stupid. ↗

— Norm MacDonald

#clever people #i #i think #people #poor

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of it was so intense - it was pleasurable. I was like, 'You sound like a band.' Then I ended up spending the rest of my life trying to chase that initial high again. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#band #chase #check #ended #ever

The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#dissenter #every #herd #himself #his

An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#better #than #utopia

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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