M Quotes
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“Many guilty consciences have been created by the slave trade. Europeans know that they carried on the slave trade, and Africans are aware that the trade would have been impossible if certain Africans did not cooperate with slave ships. To ease their guilty consciences, Europeans try to throw the major responsibility for the slave trade on to the Africans. One major author on the slave trade (appropriately titled Sins of Our Fathers) explained how many white people urged him to state that the trade was the responsibility of African chiefs, and that Europeans merely turned up to buy captives- as though without European demand there would have been captives sitting on the beach by the millions! Issues such as those are not the principal concern of this study, but they can be correctly approached only after understanding that Europe became the center of a world-wide system and that it was European capitalism which set slavery and the Atlantic slave trade in motion.”
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
“Many guys see relationships with women as a zero-sum game: If she wins, he loses. Marriage is the ultimate contest: Her job is to get him to capitulate to marriage. So many men see marriage as the "end of freedom," the end of boyhood. That's why bachelor parties are supposed to revel in that boyish irresponsibility "one last time." So many guys figure, "Why rush into something that means basically that you'll be a prisoner forever?"”
“Many had led a prolific life whereas me, a profilic life”
“Many had shed their sweat and tears for success but I had sweat my blood”
“Many hammer all over the wall and believe that with each blow they hit the nail on the head.”
“Many handis make light warke.”
Source: Proverbs and Epigrams ...
“Many hands and hearts and minds generally contribute to anyone's notable achievements.”
“many hands make light work, but nine women can't make a baby in a month...”
“Many hands make light work.”
Source: The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...
“Many hard comments have been made on my efforts in India from the side of the Congress party, yet I feel content in the deep conviction that the offer I traveled 22,000 miles to discuss with Indian leaders was a real contribution to a solution of our differences.”
“Many have a broken heart with light coming through the cracks of it.”
Source: Hey Humanity
“Many have a feeling that somehow intelligence must have been involved in the laws of the universe.”
“Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.”
Source: Signs of the Times Articles - Book I of III
“Many have an irresistible itch for writing.”
“Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.”
“Many have argued with me that ambition is not the problem. Women are not less ambitious than men, they insist, but more enlightened with different and more meaningful goals. I do not dismiss or dispute this argument. There is far more to life than climbing a career ladder, including raising children, seeking personal fulfillment, contributing to society, and improving the lives of others. And there are many people who are deeply committed to their jobs but do not - and should not have to - aspire to run their organizations. Leadership roles are not the only way to have profound impact.”
Source: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
“Many have asked if I could more specifically direct them how to kindle that spark of inner fire which illumines the way to one's self. That I cannot do. I can merely point the way and tell you of its existence. You must then find it for yourself. The only way you can find it is through being alone with your thoughts at sufficiently long intervals to give that inner voice within you a chance to cry out in distinguishable language to you, 'Here I am within you.' That is the silent voice, the voice of nature, which speaks to everyone who will listen. "Lock yourself up in your room or go out in the woods where you can be alone. When you are alone the universe talks to you in flashes of inspiration. You will find that you will suddenly know things which you never knew before. All knowledge exists in the God-Mind and is extended into this electrical universe of creative expression through desire. Knowledge is yours for the asking. You have but to plug into it. You do not have to learn anything; in fact, all you have to do is recollect it, or recognize it, for you already have it as your inheritance.”
Source: The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“Many have asked, pointing incredulously toward a sweep of tract homes and billboards, why picture that? The question sounds simple, but it implies a difficult issue - why open our eyes anywhere but in undamaged places like national parks?”
Source: The new West: landscapes along the Colorado Front Range
“Many have attempted unnatural acts, but Nature has always shown the way.”
“Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.”
“Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.”
Source: Martin Luther's Basic Theological Writings
“Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.”
“Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.”
Source: The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Political, before the revolution
“Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great.”
“Many have been with the show for years, and they have sources in the business, so we do know things, but until it is verified, we don't run with the story.”
“Many have built their careers buttressing the status quo, reinforcing what theyve already accomplished, and resisting the radical thinking that can topple their legacy - not exactly the attitude you want when trying to drive innovation forward.”
“Many have came before you and many will come after you, but none will ever be you. Some may even try to duplicate your characteristics, but they'll never succeed because you are unique.”
Source: Release The Ink
“Many have changed so much that they have lost the magic of the dream that carried them on their own bootstraps.”
“Many have come to realization simply by listening to the tinkling of a bell or some other sound”
Source: The three pillars of Zen: teaching, practice, and enlightenment
“Many have cried a thousand nights of bitter anguish, without tears. And the tormented betrayal soars at twilight.”
“Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.”
“Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and how one does live is so wide that a man who neglects what is actually done for what should be done learns the way to self-destruction rather than self-preservation.”
“Many have failed for they cannot bear the agony of waiting.”
Source: Wells of inspiration: Sage's Secret
“Many have forgotten what we came here for,
Never knew or had a clue, so you're on the floor.
Just growin' not known' about your past...
Now you're lookin' pretty stupid while you're shakin' your ass.”
Source: Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary
“Many have fought for and even lost their lives to end segregation, to win the right to vote. It disappoints me to now have to cajole people to register and to vote.”
“Many have given up. They stay home and watch the TV screen, living on the earnings of their parents, cousins, bothers, or uncles, and only leave the house to go to the movies or to the nearest bar. "How're you making it?" on may ask, running into them along the block, or in the bar. "Oh, I'm TV-ing it"; with the saddest, sweetest, most shamefaced of smiles, and from a great distance. This distance one is compelled to respect; anyone who has traveled so far will not easily be dragged again into the world. There are further retreats, of course, than the TV screen or the bar. There are those who are simply sitting on their stoops, "stoned," animated for a moment only, and hideously, by the approach of someone who may lend them the money for a "fix." Or by the approach of someone from whom they can purchase it, one of the shrewd ones, on the way to prison or just coming out.”
Source: Nobody Knows My Name
“Many have gone on to do important scientific work but all remember those wonderful times when we and our science were young and our excitement in meeting new challenges knew no bounds.”
“Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.”
Source: The Art of Worldly Wisdom
“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.”
Source: The Prince
“Many have impregnated their brains with too much knowledge. Now it's the right time to give birth to wisdom.”
“Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow.”
“Many have left their families to defend our freedom. We salute their bravery; we express our appreciation and support to their families. And we pray for their safe return.”
“Many have lived on a pedestal who will never have a statue when dead.”
“Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.”
Source: Notebooks
“Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
Source: DUNE
“Many have never felt strong, but everyone knows what it is to feel weak.”
“Many have no desire to be in it, because their work does not interest them, providing them with neither challenge nor satisfaction, and has no other merit in their eyes than that it leads to a pay-packet at the end of the week.”
Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.”
“Many have original minds who do not think it - they are led away by custom!”
Source: John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets
“Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.”