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I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#common #does #each #entire #estate

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#family #government #less #managing #much

As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament. ↗

— Mario Monti

#been #commission #confidence #each #elected

In the United States three new methods of transportation made their appearance at almost the same time - the steamboat, the canal boat, and the rail car. ↗

— John Moody

#appearance #boat #canal #car #made

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. ↗

— John Moody

#inventions #know #largely #machinery #mechanical

When the scheme for the construction of a railroad from Baltimore to the waters of the Ohio River first began to take form, the United States had barely emerged from the Revolutionary period. ↗

— John Moody

#barely #began #construction #emerged #first

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ↗

— John Moody

#east #even #extensions #lay #managed

News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried to keep it that way, and there constantly is the argument about the separation between church and state. ↗

— Leslie Moonves

#argument #been #between #church #constantly

All moral laws are merely statements that certain kinds of actions will have good effects. ↗

— George Edward Moore

#certain #certain kinds #effects #good #kinds

Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin. He must have forgotten that Wisconsin is the Badger State. And badgers are scrappy little creatures. We may look cute, warm and fuzzy, but we have a fighting spirit. ↗

— Gwen Moore

#creatures #cute #fight #fighting #folks