#desi

Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means. ↗

— Dennis Ross

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The awful thing about a conductor becoming geriatric is that you seem to become more desirable, not less. ↗

— Neville Marriner

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Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. ↗

— Archer John Porter Martin

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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression. ↗

— Henri Matisse

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You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#drink #drunkard #guard #learn #love

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.' ↗

— Marlee Matlin

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I believe consistency and orthogonality are tools of design, not the primary goal in design. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain. ↗

— Andre Maurois

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Well, yes, I mean, I think that, you know, my sources suggest that there's a lot of support for the notion that there is a lot of Koran abuse and that it was very much a systematic design, not just an aberration. ↗

— Jane Mayer

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I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

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