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In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers. ↗

— Lucretius

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That's the way I do things when I want to celebrate, I always plant a tree. And so I got an indigenous tree, called Nandi flame, it has this beautiful red flowers. When it is in flower it is like it is in flame. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. ↗

— Douglas MacArthur

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The first year we actually did a lot of night shooting and the writers weren't even allowed on location. ↗

— James MacArthur

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Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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You can have relatively high levels of class consciousness with a lower level of class militancy than one would have expected. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#class consciousness #consciousness #expected #high #high levels

Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#because #been #day #days #fiction

I should have never allowed myself to be as familiar with my staff as I was. ↗

— Eric Massa

#familiar #i #myself #never #should

The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own. ↗

— Kurt Masur

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I'd never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

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