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Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery. ↗

— Arthur Machen

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One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

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I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color. ↗

— Malcolm X

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The problem here is with a human being, not with a monster, not with an animal. The human being does things that even the monster does not do, because the human is more sophisticated. ↗

— Peter Malkin

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And Marx spoke of the fact that socialism will be the kingdom of freedom, where man realizes himself in a way that humankind has never seen before. This was an inspiring body of literature to read. ↗

— Albert Maltz

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My father is a college professor and that's about the extent of my college experience. I'm sort of a professional student forever. I think just as human beings we always have a student who is alive in us and is waiting to pop up and make us feel like we are 16 years-old again. ↗

— Gabriel Mann

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The obsessions we have are pretty much the same our whole lives. Mine are people, the human condition, life. ↗

— Mary Ellen Mark

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In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence. ↗

— Yann Martel

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It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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