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- Hamilton Mabie We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) There is no security on this earth. Only opportunity. - General Douglas MacArthur In war there is no substitute for victory. - General Douglas MacArthur Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983) Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. - Norman MacEwan It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince" It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. - Niccolo Machiavelli War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing time, which give him liesure to contrive and furnish his ability to execute military plans. - Niccolo Machiavelli Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. - Helen MacInness All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. - Maurice Maeterlinck It isn't the people you fire who make your life miserable, it's the people you don't. - Harvey Mackay You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz Always remember when you are on top of the world, that the earth rotates every 24 hrs. - Steve G. Makris The one who travels alone travels the fastest, but the one who travels in a group travels the farthest. - Brother Pontius Malmberg Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. - Og Mandino The ultimate leader is one who is willing to develop people to the point that they surpass him or her in knowledge and ability. - Fred A. Manske, Jr. We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it, including the thorns. - Orison S. Marden I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life. - Queen Margret II of Denmark An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. -Donald R. Perry Marquis Procrastination is the art of keeping with yesterday. - Donald R. Perry Marquis From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. - Groucho Marx (1895-1977) From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. - Karl Marx Religion... is the opium of the masses. - Karl Marx It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like. - Jackie Mason Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. - W. Somerset Maugham A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. - John C. Maxwell A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit. - John C. Maxwell Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today. - John C. Maxwell A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him. - John C. Maxwell People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision. - John C. Maxwell Learn to say no to the good so you can say yes to the best. - John C. Maxwell Leadership is influence. - John C. Maxwell The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. - Rollo May Commitment is healthiest when it not without doubt but in spite of doubt. - Rollo May Always question. Always analyze. But in the end, suspend judgment until you've been there. Live it to learn it. - Mark McClinchie The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, and there are 1,322 words in the Declaration of Independence. Yet, government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words. - David McIntosh Yes, risk-taking is inherently failure-prone. Otherwise, it would be called sure-thing taking. - Tim McMahon Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. - Mignon McLaughlin What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. - Mignon McLaughlin Never underestimate the abililty of a small group of people to change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Meade Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. - H. L. Mencken If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. - H. L. Mencken A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - H. L. Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. - H. L. Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. - H. L. Mencken Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. - H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H. L. Mencken Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. - H. L. Mencken Criticism is prejudice made plausible. - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity... You can't sit back and wait. - Ellen Metcalf Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands Sure, there's no "i" in team, but there is an "m" and an "e". - Kevin Meyers Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish. - Michelangelo Lord, grant that I might always aspire to more than I can accomplish. - Michelangelo Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries. - James A. Michener Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles. - George Mikes The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram The road to success is always under construction. - Jim Miller A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. - Wilson Mizner Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something. - Wilson Mizner The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them. - Montaigne I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself. - Montaigne The greatest motivational act one person can do for another is to listen. - Roy E. Moody After all, there is but one race - humanity. - George Moore To know one thing, you must know the opposite. - Henry Moore Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal. - Hannah More Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. - Jeanne Moreau You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. - John Morley Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. - Dwight Morrow It's so easy to laugh. It's so easy to hate. It takes strength to be gentle and kind. - Stephen Morrissey Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good. - Daniel Moynihan The issue of race could benefit from a period of benign neglect. - Daniel Moynihan Freedom is being able to live with the consequences of your decisions. - James X. Mullen A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. - Edward R. Murrow The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery without almost noticing them. - Gunnar Myrdal |