M Quotes
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“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“Most of the information Americans receive about sports betting comes from sportsbooks themselves. Thanks to commercials featuring celebrity spokespeople and the arrival of sportsbooks inside arenas, what was once an illicit vice on the margins of society is now at the heart of sports culture. The through line in all of this normalizing messaging is that betting on sports is exciting, and that it is harmless. The nation needs counterprogramming to sportsbooks’ narrative so that young people, in particular, are able to appropriately scrutinize these messages. They do not need to be chastised into thinking that gambling is not exciting or is evil, but they need to be made aware that it is addictive and that it can be easy for someone to get carried away. One approach is that taken by Virginia, where, in 2022, gambling addiction was added to school curricula on drug and alcohol abuse. Arthur Paikowsky of the International Center for Responsible Gaming suggested adding gambling content to first-year orientation at colleges and universities. Parents and anyone who teaches financial literacy should also make a point of talking about gambling. Of course, high school and college students are not exactly known for paying rapt attention during these types of lessons. But someone needs to present an alternative view about sports betting than what young people are likely to see on social media or in sportsbook advertising.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Most of the information we now get is through television and is mutilated. Photography offers the opportunity to spend much more time on a topic. It's relatively cheaper medium, and can allow a photographer really to live in another place, show another reality, get closer to the truth.”
“Most of the initial resistance comes from the inability to overcome this resistance that a new change brings in our lives.”
Source: 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure
“Most of the institutions that come in to offer help after disaster don't have the resources to provide concrete help. . . . Donor communities invest billions funding peace talks and disarmament. Then they stop. The most important part of postwar help is missing: providing basic social services to people. Not having those resources might have been a reason men went to war in the first place; they crossed a border and joined an armed group because they didn't have jobs. In Liberia right now, there are hundreds of thousands of unemployed young people, and they're ready-made mercenaries for wars in West Africa. You'd think the international community would be sensible enough to know they should work to change this. But they aren't.”
Source: Mighty Be Our Powers: How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War
“Most of the intellectual elite of the USA completely disavow the idea of absolute truth.”
“Most of the interesting people I've ever met have been deviant in one form or another.”
“Most of the international acceptance of jazz education can be traced to the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, and the wonderful program they inaugurated.”
“Most of the international community, most of the countries around the world, don't want any side, any party to take unilateral steps. They would like that all of us to stick to the road map.”
“Most of the Jewish writer friends I have are American, and I feel closer to them because they're always obsessed with one issue - identity: what does it mean to be an American Jew?”
“Most of the jokes that I wrote were funny and there always seems to be an aspect of comedy in my long-form work. I think that's how life is. I think even the more dramatic moments of one's life are often punctuated by very funny comments or situations. I like to say, "Keep your comedy serious and your drama funny, and you'll be pretty true to life."”
“Most of the kids that I meet in the street are serious hardened criminals that I meet in the street, never had a mother and a father to love them, to protect them, to teach them right from wrong and lead them out of crime and gangs and stuff like that.”
“Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.”
“Most of the lands around Arton surrendered to forest quickly, but this was especially true of the eastlands. They held evergreen conifers so tall they bruised the sky. Below them algae-cracked boulders lay scattered among the sleeping moss and woody underbrush, the groundcover dense and feral. Its wildness attracted powerful and unusual creatures, and there was a general rule known to those familiar with the area, though it didn’t always help: stick to the road.”
Source: The Marrowsgate
“Most of the laugh tracks on television were recorded in the early 1950’s. These days, most of the people you hear laughing are dead.”
Source: Lullaby
“Most of the leaders are still haunted by the nightmares of slavery, mostly mental colonisation in general.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Most of the leading figures of the Old Testament were polygamists. Abraham had several wives and concubines. If they wanted, they could say this was approved in the Bible.”
“MOST OF THE LEGENDS POSSESS STRONG WEAKNESSES, THE ONE LIKE BEING JUDGEMENTAL”
“Most of the liberal defenses of pornography are equally muddled. Writers and university professors feel quite heroic in taking the witness stand to avow that some outrageously immoral book is somehow supremely moral. These men usually display two contradictory motives. First, they oppose the censorship of any book on any grounds as a matter of principle. Anything and everything should be freely published. Some would impose restraints on things that are Nazi, racist, or similarly tabooed, but many are earnest champions of unlimited freedom of publication. Unlimited freedom is for them a supreme good. Second, since unlimited freedom is seen as a supreme good, it follows that the results of such an unlimited freedom must somehow be good. They therefore feel it necessary to defend the moral integrity of such books as are attacked for their use of this license. As a result, these scholars and writers place themselves in a most amusing position: they are ready to defend anything attacked on moral grounds, as though freedom makes all its adherents good. No doubt if some avant-garde writer issued a book empty of everything save a cake of cow dung between its covers, scholars would not be lacking to interpret for a court what a profound and redeeming social commentary was at stake.”
“Most of the literary classics are worth reading, if you've nothing better to do.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation.”
“Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer.”
“Most of the lyrics are over a year old, and it doesn't feel like it's about me. Time created a distance.”
“Most of the lyrics are rooted in my own experiences. But there is some sheer fabrication.”
“Most of the major consumer-goods companies roll out their marketing programs in the I-4 corridor. It reflects what America looks like.”
“Most of the major ills of the world have been caused by well-meaning people who ignored the principle of individual freedom, except as applied to themselves, and who were obsessed with fanatical zeal to improve the lot of mankind-in-the-mass through some pet formula of their own. The harm done by ordinary criminals, murderers, gangsters, and thieves is negligible in comparison with the agony inflicted upon human beings by the professional do-gooders who attempt to set themselves up as gods on earth and who would ruthlessly force their views on all others with the abiding assurance that the end justifies the means.”
Source: The Mainspring of Human Progress
“Most of the major increases in the debt ceiling have been accompanied by structural changes in the way we raise and spend money.”
“Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.”
“Most of the manufacturers they tend to design things to sell they are more interested in the money side than anything else.”
“Most of the maps that I create go from the nowhere of where I am to the nowhere of what I think is a somewhere. For without God, my nowhere and my somewhere will not take me anywhere.”
“Most of the media bullshit you about who they are. We don’t. We’re not programming to conservatives, we’re just not eliminating their point of view.”
“Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.”
“Most of the Mefditations Centres make you become
the victim of Schizophrenic, which is the mental disorder of hallucinating.”
Source: Enter Heaven
“Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.”
Source: Daniel Boone: His Own Story
“Most of the men and women at the gym are working towards the same goal.
"The perfect female body.”
“Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.”
“Most of the men, do not have the luxury, to have felt, something.”
“Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt.”
Source: The Rough Riders
“Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.”
Source: Gigolo
“Most of the men sitting in first class on an airplane have really boring jobs.”
“Most of the men thrown into the back of the van that night were drunk, but none was in public: each was in his own home. And yet not one of them questioned the legality of his arrest. After nearly a dace of democracy, each assumed that the cops had every right to drag him out of his home and throw him in prison.”
Source: Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South African
“Most of the mess that is called history comes about because kings and presidents cannot be satisfied with a nice chicken and a good loaf of bread.”
Source: Revolution
“Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.”
Source: Sketches and Essays
“Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.”
Source: Becoming a Writer
“Most of the Michelle Bachmanns and Mitt Romneys who say such terrible things about us actually is a positive force, because it allows sensible people to realize how stupid and vile their beliefs are.”
“Most of the mines in the minefields of our life were planted by the choices that we should have never made while we were in the places that we should have never been.”
“Most of the mismatch diseases from which we currently suffer stem from the transition from hunting and gathering to farming.”
Source: The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health, and Disease
“Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.”
Source: Serious Creativity: Using the Power of Lateral Thinking to Create New Ideas
“Most of the models have this thing I call slouchy sexy, not only in the way they dress, but in the way carry themselves. I don't think they would look hot in one of my dresses. They are more into A. Wang. Most of my clothes are nerdy sexy.”
“Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism.”