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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. ↗

— John McGahern

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Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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I am not drinking now but I cannot guarantee tomorrow. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

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You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God. ↗

— John C. McGinley

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Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth carrying on? But because there were other poets, you became part of a scene. Even though they were very different writers, it made it easier because you were together. ↗

— Roger McGough

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I can't just sit around thinking how lucky I am. ↗

— Elizabeth McGovern

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I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

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I firmly believed throughout 1971 that the major hurdle to winning the presidency was winning the Democratic nomination. I believed that any reasonable Democrat would defeat President Nixon. I now think that no one could have defeated him in 1972. ↗

— George McGovern

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