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We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty. ↗

— Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu

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I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

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I always try to make things fun. ↗

— Poppy Montgomery

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If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly. ↗

— Bernard Law Montgomery

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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue? ↗

— James Montgomery

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