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I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

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It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

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One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine. ↗

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes of a problem. We often preoccupy ourselves with the symptoms, whereas if we went to the root cause of the problems, we would be able to overcome the problems once and for all. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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I stand behind all the lyrics I've ever written; I don't have a problem with that. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

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I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

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There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second. But the seamen were not gentlemen; and the gentlemen were not seamen. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

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The tensions are always based on financial resources. Something like film is very problematic because it is viewed as an art form and also as an industry with a pure commercial base. ↗

— Ann Macbeth

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Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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