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Against the dark background of this contemporary civilization of well-being, even the arts tend to mingle, to lose their identity. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#arts #background #civilization #contemporary #dark

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#act #believe #dream #first #great

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

#citizen #constantly #could #difference #doing

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

— James Montgomery

#blue #came #dazzling #flower #hue

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens, too willing to please the requests of everybody, thereby acting against the interests of future generations. ↗

— Mario Monti

#against #because #citizens #close #debt

My feelings, as the last ball travelled over the net, and as I realized that the final match was mine, I cannot describe. I felt that here was a prize for all the games I had ever played. ↗

— Helen Wills Moody

#cannot #describe #ever #feelings #felt

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated on the Pacific by the annual addition of over fifty million dollars to the circulating medium. ↗

— John Moody

#annual #attention #begin #circulating #concentrated

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. ↗

— Rick Moody

#just #style #stylized

When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring. ↗

— Rick Moody

#control #example #gets #going #good

I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer. ↗

— Robert Moog

#first of all #i #make #music #musician