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| The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. | M. Scott Peck | American Psychiatrist, Author |
| Patience means self-suffering. | Mahatma Gandhi | 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader |
| We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language. | Mal Pancoast | |
| A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators. | Malcolm Bradbury | 1932-, British Author |
| My alma mater was books, a good library. I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. | Malcolm X | 1925-1965, American Black Leader, Activist |
| To read too many books is harmful. | Mao Zedong | 1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State |
| The language of truth is unadorned and always simple. | Marcellinus Ammianus | Egyptian Historian, Author |
| The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| A letter does not blush. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world. | Margaret Mead | 1901-1978, American Anthropologist |
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| I am extraordinarily patient provided I get my own way in the end. | Margaret Thatcher | 1925-, British Stateswoman, Prime Minister (1979-90) |
| There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skillful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! | Maria Montessori | 1870-1952, Italian Educator |
| Poetry is all nouns and verbs. | Marianne Moore | 1887-1972, American Poet |
| English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action. | Marilyn Butler | American Writer |
| There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. | Mario Vargas Llosa | 1936-, Latin American Author |
| The man who does not read books has no advantage over the man that can not read them. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine -- everybody drinks water. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
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| The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares! | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Never learn to do anything. If you don't learn, you will always find someone else to do it for you. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| The cultivation of literary pursuits forms the basis of all sciences, and in their perfection consist the reputation and prosperity of kingdoms. | Marques De Pombal | 1699-1782, Portuguese Statesman |
| There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do. | Marquis De Vauvenargues | 1715-1747, French Moralist |
| You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character. | Marquis De Vauvenargues | 1715-1747, French Moralist |
| If we could have a little patience, we should escape much mortification; time takes away as much as it gives. | Marquise De S-Vign- | |
| At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer. | Marshall Lumsden | |
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| A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. | Marshall Mcluhan | 1911-1980, Canadian Communications Theorist |
| Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man. | Martin Heidegger | 1889-1976, German Philosopher |
| The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing. | Martin Luther | 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation |
| A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever. | Martin Tupper | 1810-1889, British Author, Poet, Inventor |
| The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason. | Marya Mannes | 1904-1990, American Writer |
| Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties! | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbour to Despair. | Matthew Arnold | 1822-1888, British Poet, Critic |
| Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast. | Max Muller | 1823-1900, British Philosopher, Philologist |
| Why did I want to win? because I didn't want to lose! | Max Schmelling | |
| The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. | Mccosh | |
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| The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly --because if they don't speak fast nobody will listen to them. | Michael Caine | 1933-, British-born American Actor, Acting teacher |
| Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pass on. Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius. | Michael J. Gelb | American Peak Performance Expert, Author, Trainer |
| Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health. | Michel Eyquem De Montaigne | 1533-1592, French Philosopher, Essayist |
| For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences. | Miguel De Cervantes | 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet |
| Patience and shuffle the cards. | Miguel De Cervantes | 1547-1616, Spanish Novelist, Dramatist, Poet |
| The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves. | Mike Ditka | American Football Player, Coach of Chicago Bears |
| The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
| For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? | Milan Kundera | 1929-, Czech Author, Critic |
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