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“A martial art that has no rules is nothing but violence.”
“A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.”
“A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), . . . .”
Source: Dirty Fighting : Lethal Okinawan Karate
“A martial arts practice hall, a dojo, is a place you go to practice being the best you can be. But the true combat in a dojo is not between one person and another as most people believe it to be. The true combat in a martial arts practice hall is between the people within ourselves.”
“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against the enterprise of an aspiring prince”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“A Martian Midsummer Night's Dream by Stewart Stafford
On Mars's pristine ruddy hue, we tread,
Above, stars as adamantine algae spread.
Phobos and Deimos, twin moons fair,
Primeval river beds form a spidery lair.
Dust storms tower above dried-up seas,
A vast red alien desert, shorn of trees.
Oberon and Titania's gamesmanship spite,
Quarrel deep in the Martian summer night.
Puckish antics stir starry lovers' hearts true,
As spells and dreams on tangled paths pursue.
On Olympus Mons, Vulcan gods watch and scheme,
Echoes of old wars fuelling plans extreme;
A Wellsian tome of the tripod Martian foe,
Of invasive seeds, spread to Earth to sow.
In Valles Marineris, where canyons stretch away,
Dead of night gives birth to coppery day.
A frontier vision, both opaque and diamond clear,
Magical flights of fancy on an untamed sphere.
© 2024, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.”
“A Martian would think that the English worship at supermarkets, not in churches.”
“A martini. Shaken, not stirred.”
“A martyr is someone willing to die for what he believes in. A fanatic is someone willing for you to die for what he believes in.”
“A martyr is the one who bears witness that the Shari'ah of Allah is more valuable to him than his own life.”
“A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr.”
Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“A martyr's just a casualty with really good PR.”
“A martyred look accompanied this reply, belying her air of passionless indifference.”
Source: God Knows
“A marveilous newtrality have these things mathematicall, and also a strange participation between things supernaturall and things naturall.”
“A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.”
“A marvellous power of expression over language often distinguishes genius; but Shakespeare in his phrases seems independent of the bonds of language as of the bonds of metre.”
Source: Shakespeare: An Address
“A marvelous thing it would be to stand with confidence, unafraid, unashamed, and unembarrassed in the presence of God.”
Source: Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes
“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage -- the political paradise of communism.”
Source: Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals
“A Marxist has never written a good novel.”
“A Masai warrior on a cellphone in the middle of Kenya has better mobile comm than President Reagan did 25 years ago.”
“A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Anna Seward: With Extracts from Her Literary Correspondence
“A masculine man wears his attitude. He is as much comfortable wearing three piece suits as he is in wearing ripped torn jeans. He does not chase love, women, or power. He gets them anyhow. He would never ever give up his masculinity for anyone or anything in his life. He lives by his ideals that are tattooed to his soul. He does not believe in leading a comfortable life with luxuries. Rather he works hard to achieve his goals in life. He lives raw. He wanders often. And his life story becomes a testament to his masculinity!”
“A MASK OF LIES IS BUILT TO TRAP YOU. TOO MANY THINGS IN COMMON SHOULD RAISE RED FLAGS, UNTIL COMMONALITIES ARE PROVEN.”
“A mask tells us more than a face.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays
“A mask will never hide the smile in your eyes.”
“A mask you ask? Optional I find!
Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.”
Source: Phantom Phantasia: Poetry for the Phantom of the Opera Phan
“A masochist only feels the feeling of pleasure.”
“A masquerade is supposed to be a chance to put on a different face, isn't it? An opportunity to be someone else for a few hours. Yet I can't seem to manage it. I'm still me, beneath the mask."
"I know what you mean." Gabe was still himself beneath the armor, too. An interloper among the aristocrats. Unwelcome. Inadequate. "We are who we are, I suppose."
"We are who we are," she agreed.
Gabe despised the defeated note in her voice. He liked who she was, beneath the mask. And when he was in her company, he almost liked who he was, too. The idea that anyone would overlook her made him vaguely furious.”
Source: The Wallflower Wager
“A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation.”
Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements
“A mass movement of a militant quality that is not at the same time committed to nonviolence tends to generate conflict, which in turn breeds anarchy. The support of the participants and the sympathy of the uncommitted are both inhibited by the threat that bloodshed will engulf the community. This reaction in turn encourages the opposition to threaten and resort to force. When, however, the mass movement repudiates violence while moving resolutely toward its goal, its opponents are revealed as the instigators and practitioners of violence if it occurs. Then public support is magnetically attracted to the advocates of nonviolence while those who employ violence are literally disarmed by overwhelming sentiment against their stand.”
Source: Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
“A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.”
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up the details...”
Source: Politics and the English Language
“A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”
Source: Orwell and politics: Animal farm in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from the complete works of George Orwell
“A massage is just like a movie, really relaxing and a total escape, except in a massage you're the star. And you don't miss anything by falling asleep!”
“A massive amount of quantity with a deliberate focus on improvement leads to the knowledge and experience of how to make quality.”
“A massive and brilliant accomplishment--the first English translation of the original Grimm brothers' fairy tales. The plain telling is that much more forceful for its simplicity and directness, particularly in scenes of naked self-concern and brutality. Hate, spite, love, magic, all self-evident, heartbreaking, delightful. I will return to this book over and over, no doubt about it.”
“A massive beast dashed along the mountain apex. Astamur reached for his rifle. “A demon?” “No, not a demon.” I might have preferred one . “That’s my boyfriend.” Atsany and the shepherd turned to look at me. “Boyfriend?” Astamur said. Curran saw us. He paused on a stone crag and roared. The raw declaration of strength cracked through the mountains, rolling down the cliffs like a rockslide. “Yep. Don’t worry. He’s harmless.”
“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.”
“A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States...De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation...Redistribution of wealth both within and among nations is absolutely essential, if a decent life is to be provided for every human being.”
“A massive fir, it rose to nearly touch the ceiling at the far end of the ballroom. When Will asked Charlotte how on earth it had gotten in there, she had only waved her hands and said something about Magnus.”
Source: Clockwork Princess
“A massive half-tester bed takes up most of the space in the first room, the headboard panel carved with various animals with women's heads and bare breasts- owls, snakes and foxes- doing some kind of weird dance.”
Source: The Cruel Prince
“A massive immigration bill has no chance of becoming law.”
“A massive new guest worker program hurts American workers. ... If a guest worker program were to provide a path to citizenship, we would be rewarding lawbreakers with the greatest honor our country can bestow - citizenship.”
“A massive new penal system has emerged in the past few decades - a penal system unprecedented in world history. It is a system driven almost entirely by race and class.”
“A massive power outage in Washington, D.C., today affected a number of federal buildings, including the White House. When asked when they could restore power to the White House, officials said, '2016?'”
“A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.”
Source: As I am: an autobiography
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between her work and her play; her labor and her leisure; her mind and her body; her education and her recreation. She hardly knows which is which. She simply pursues her vision of excellence through whatever she is doing, and leaves others to determine if she is working or playing. To herself, she always appears to be doing both.”
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which.”