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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
– H. L. Mencken
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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.
– Karl A. Menninger
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
– Karl A. Menninger
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Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!
– George Meredith
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
– Thomas Merton
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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
– Thomas Merton
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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
– Thomas Merton
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It is in the ordinary duties and labors of life that the Christian can and should develop his spiritual union with God.
– Thomas Merton
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The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
– Thomas Merton
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I love London. I love England. We were out in the countryside and I had the time of my life.
– Debra Messing
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I pay parking tickets. You know, you can try to give 50%, but then they charge you all those penalties! Seriously, I have gotten many, many, many tickets in my life.
– Debra Messing
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I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.
– Debra Messing
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It's a miracle to be an actor and to know that you have a job to go to a year from now is a rare thing, so I think peace of mind and financial stability come with that. Hopefully I'm a little wiser and have a little more perspective in my life than I did then.
– Debra Messing
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It's always been really important for me to try to maintain a balanced life, professional and personal, and this was absolutely something that my husband and I had hoped for.
– Debra Messing
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To me, nothing is more fascinating or theatrical than real life. These people are in dire situations, where something extreme has happened in their lives.
– Debra Messing
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When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
– Debra Messing
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
– Alice Meynell
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The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.
– Alice Meynell
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
– James A. Michener
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The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.
– James A. Michener
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I am very adamant about keeping my private life private. I don't prefer to talk about my family.
– Luis Miguel
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I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
– Luis Miguel
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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
– John Stuart Mill
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
– John Stuart Mill
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Parrots, tortoises and redwoods live a longer life than men do; Men a longer life than dogs do; Dogs a longer life than love does.
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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A play is made by sensing how the forces in life simulate ignorance-you set free the concealed irony, the deadly joke.
– Arthur Miller
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Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.
– Arthur Miller
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
– Arthur Miller
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The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
– Arthur Miller
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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
– Arthur Miller
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Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?
– Dennis Miller
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The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.
– Dennis Miller
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There's no doubt about it, show business lures the people who didn't get enough love, attention, or approval early in life and have grown up to become bottomless, gaping vessels of terrifying, abject need. Please laugh.
– Dennis Miller
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Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
– Henry Miller
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Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine.
– Henry Miller
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Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is no such thing as frozen assets.
– Henry Miller
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Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.
– Henry Miller
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Plots and character don't make life. Life is here and now, anytime you say the word, anytime you let her rip.
– Henry Miller
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The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
– Henry Miller
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Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.
– Henry Miller
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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.
– Henry Miller
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Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing.
– Henry Miller
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Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.
– Henry Miller
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Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.
– Ann Miller
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
– Jack Miller
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The life-fate of the modern individual depends not only upon the family into which he was born or which he enters by marriage, but increasingly upon the corporation in which he spends the most alert hours of his best years.
– C. Wright Mills
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So dear I love him that with him all deaths I could endure, without him live no life.
– John Milton
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As I have mentioned many times before, my family's quality of life has been greatly enhanced by raising and showing horses through the years. We and many other Delawareans have made horses a family affair.
– Ruth Ann Minner
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Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
– Ruth Ann Minner
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I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.
– Ruth Ann Minner
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
– John N. Mitchell
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Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
– John N. Mitchell
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It is not in life, but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.
– Wilson Mizner
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I don't think that there's such a thing as a career. I think that career is a myth. A career isn't what you have ahead of you. A career is what you've got behind you. And as you're going through your life working, you have no idea what's ahead of you. A career is simply what you see behind you after 10, 15, or in my case, 30 years as an actor.
– Alfred Molina
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I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, I've had more of a choice, and it's been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that there's another job after this one.
– Alfred Molina
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I'm not qualified to do anything else. So there better be another job. I'm kind of stuck now. I'm enjoying my life and I'm enjoying my work, and I'm enjoying the fact that the work I'm doing is garnering some interest and that's great. I just hope that it continues.
– Alfred Molina
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I'd be interested in finding out if there is a light you walk into, and if you do meet people from your life and walk hand in hand with Jesus. I would hate for my death to be tragic: I'd like to be old when it happens. But hopefully a young death is unlikely.
– Brian Molko
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
– Walter F. Mondale
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I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.
– Walter F. Mondale
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For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value.
– Claude Monet
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My life has been nothing but a failure.
– Claude Monet
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Life is too short for a long story.
– Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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Labour not after riches first, and think thou afterwards wilt enjoy them. He who neglecteth the present moment, throweth away all that he hath. As the arrow passeth through the heart, while the warrior knew not that it was coming; so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
– Michel de Montaigne
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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.
– Michel de Montaigne
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.
– Michel de Montaigne
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The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.
– Michel de Montaigne
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The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
– Michel de Montaigne
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Those who have compared our life to a dream were right... we were sleeping wake, and waking sleep.
– Michel de Montaigne
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Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow.
– Ricardo Montalban
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If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon.
– Alfred A. Montapert
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In life, the first thing you must do is decide what you really want. Weigh the costs and the results. Are the results worthy of the costs? Then make up your mind completely and go after your goal with all your might.
– Alfred A. Montapert
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
– Charles de Montesquieu
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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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I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.
– George Montgomery
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Light for every darkness, life in death, the promise of our Lord's return, and the assurance of everlasting glory.
– Dwight L. Moody
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
– Dwight L. Moody
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In a way then, the Divine Principle, this new revelation, is the documentary of my life. It is my own life experience. The Divine Principle is in me, and I am in the Divine Principle.
– Sun Myung Moon
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People who sow a selfish life here on earth will reap hell thereafter. But this is not the result of the condemnation of God. One cannot reap heaven if he lives and acts against God. God is a God of love; by having humanity suffering in hell, his heart is aching. He cannot enjoy this. God's desire is to ultimately liberate even hell.
– Sun Myung Moon
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As the flow of subliterary news items and anecdotes increases, the writer's work withers and stales until, in grim transference, his life becomes his oeuvre and he his only character.
– Brian Moore
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The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore
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I had an essence in my life that I was nothing.
– Demi Moore
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Marriage is an Athenic weaving together of families, of two souls with their individual fates and destinies, of time and eternity - everyday life married to the timeless mysteries of the soul.
– Thomas Moore
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No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.
– Thomas Moore
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If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.
– Hannah More
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I'm eternally grateful to the penal system in California for saving my life.
– Frank Morgan
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A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
– Christopher Morley
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There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.
– Christopher Morley
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When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue-you sell him a whole new life.
– Christopher Morley
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
– William Morris
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People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.
– Jim Morrison
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Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
– Jim Morrison
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I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.
– John Mortimer
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The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
– John Mortimer
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The worst fault of the working classes is telling their children they're not going to succeed, saying: There is life, but it's not for you.
– John Mortimer
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I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.
– Bob Mould
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I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.
– Bob Mould
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Hyperbole was to Lyndon Johnson what oxygen is to life.
– Bill Moyers
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The liberal left can be as rigid and destructive as any force in American life.
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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