M Quotes
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“Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.”
“Most venture capital funds are too short-termist and exit-driven to deal with the highly uncertain and lengthy innovation process.”
“Most venture capitalists won't read a business plan unless the entrepreneur is introduced to them by a contact.”
“Most very small business owners aren’t short on effort. They’re short on honest focus.
Confidence grows when you stop trying to fix everything and start working on the right few things.”
Source: The Uncomfortable Comfort Zone: Where small business owners get stuck — and how to move forward
“Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.”
“Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
“Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly”
Source: Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson
“Most victories are, in the best way, acts of revenge.”
“Most victories came from instantly exploiting your enemy's stupid mistakes, and not from any particular brilliance in your own plan.”
“Most violence is intra-racial, and much of the violence in African-American communities is a function of drug availability, joblessness and poverty.”
“Most Virgos are neat and clean. They like order. But I have met more than a few who were cluttery or messy, usually a result of being too busy to manage their homes.”
Source: Astrology for Real Life: A Workbook for Beginners
“Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.”
“Most virtue lies between two vices.”
“Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.”
“Most visual artists, just like most writers, tend to be solitary. While they're doing the art, that is. They may have a crazy orgy that morning, but at a certain point they kick everybody out, and say: "Come, go home. Yeah, I had a great time too." And then you're alone again, and then you're freshly inspired and energized.”
“Most volcanologists die in bed.”
“Most volleyball players are made in the winter, spring and summer, for come fall, everyone practices equal time.”
“Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.”
“Most wannabe writers are to the book industry what cows are to the meat industry.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Most Wanted
***
The jury of my heart's desires has passed
A verdict on that;
The Most Wanted Beloved
The reward will be
Romeo and Juliet Prize.”
“Most wars are fought for greed, but we are luckier here we fight for our lives and the lives of the people we love.”
“Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.”
“Most wars are not won in a single battle.”
“Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.”
“Most wealth is inconspicuous. The man down the street driving the nice car and living in the mansion could easily have greater debt and a lower net worth than the stealthy and wealthy plumber who drives a beat-up truck but seems to work only when he doesn't feel like fishing.”
Source: The Millionaire Maker's Guide to Creating Cash with Wealth Cycle Investing
“Most wealthy people understand that freedom is more important than money”
Source: Time Value of Money: Timing Income
“Most weeks, I work 100-plus hours on TheMuse.com. There are definitions of 'work-life balance' that would say I have none.”
“Most weight-loss books are written by smart, well-intentioned people who read a lot of other weight-loss books and write their book based on their collected 2nd hand knowledge and their personal experience. Glucose Control Eating© is different. It’s based on over 40 years of empirical testing and over 85,000 tests on the impact of foods and drinks on weight.”
Source: Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
“Most white Americans believe elections should be a choice of policies rather than expressions of racial identity. If Americans vote for a candidate because of his racial agenda, representative government is crippled. Democratic systems operate well only when politicians recognize that even if their opponents’ approaches may be different, all parties are trying to work for the good of the country as a whole. When politics fracture along racial lines, it becomes easy to assume that elected officials work for narrow, ethnic interests, and political contests become very bitter.
The ultimate logic of politics in a racially fractured electorate is a system of quotas in which seats in elective bodies are set aside in proportion to the racial composition of the population. This is the formula hopelessly divided countries such as Lebanon and immediate post-white-rule Zimbabwe and South Africa hit upon. It could be the solution for other divided countries such as Iraq, Sudan, Fiji, Malaysia, or Sri Lanka, where politics is a perpetual squabble over ethnic interests.
There is already implied support for proportional racial representation in the federal approach to voter districts. The US Department of Justice has long required that congressional districts be gerrymandered to create black and Hispanic majorities that are expected to vote along racial lines and send one of their own to Congress. The department also routinely sues cities that choose their governing bodies in at-large elections. If, for example, a city is 30 percent black but has no blacks on the city council because all candidates must appeal to the entire city, voting must be switched to a ward system, with wards drawn so that blacks—by voting for people like themselves have approximately 30 percent of the council seats. In 2006, the Justice Department used precisely this argument to threaten Euclid, Ohio, with litigation if it did not replace its at-large elections with a system of eight separate wards.
In 2010, Hispanics made the same argument when they sued the city of Compton: They claimed that an at-large voting system shut them out and kept the city council all black.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.”
“Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.”
Source: Looking After Minidoka: An American Memoir
“Most white scholars eventually turn out to be just another colonial twit, no matter how brilliant, how learned they are, because animal conditioning doesn't wear off with mere education of the intellect - your soul must be disinfected of colonial filth, which is not possible until you intrinsically embody the pain, indignity, and humiliations of the oppressed, subjected through generations.”
Source: With Love From A Blue Rock
“Most whites do not have a racial identity, but they would do well to understand what race means for others. They should also ponder the consequences of being the only group for whom such an identity is forbidden and who are permitted no aspirations as a group.”
“Most whites in America have a consciousness of race that is very different from that of minorities. They do not attach much importance to the fact that they are white, and they view race as an illegitimate reason for decision-making of any kind. Many whites have made a genuine effort to transcend race and to see people as individuals. They often fail, but their professed goal is color-blindness. Some whites have gone well beyond color-blindness and see their race as uniquely guilty and without moral standing. Neither the goal of color-blindness nor a negative view of their own race has any parallel in the thinking of non-whites.
Most whites also believe that racial equality, integration, and “diversity” flow naturally from the republican, anti-monarchical principles of the American Revolution. They may know that Thomas Jefferson owned slaves but they believe that the man who wrote “all men are created equal” had a vision of the egalitarian, heterogeneous society in which we now live. They are wrong. Earlier generations of white Americans had a strong racial consciousness. Current assumptions about race are a dramatic reversal of the views not only of the Founding Fathers but of the great majority of Americans up until the 1950s and 1960s. Change on this scale is rare in any society, and the past views of whites are worth investigating for the perspective they provide on current views.
It is possible to summarize the racial views that prevailed in this country until a few decades ago as follows: White Americans believed race was a fundamental aspect of individual and group identity. They believed people of different races differed in temperament, ability, and the kind of societies they built. They wanted America to be peopled by Europeans, and thought only people of European stock could maintain the civilization they valued. They therefore considered immigration of non-whites a threat to whites and to their civilization. It was common to regard the presence of non-whites as a burden, and to argue that if they could not be removed from the country they should be separated from whites socially and politically. Whites were strongly opposed to miscegenation, which they called “amalgamation.”
Many injustices were committed in defense of these views, and many of the things prominent Americans of the past said ring harshly on contemporary ears. And yet the sentiment behind them—a sense of racial solidarity—is not very different from the sentiments we find among many non-whites today.”
Source: White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century
“Most will choose to leave someone who can't bear to see them go.”
“Most will tell you what they believe to be fact because it is much harder to conceal it. It takes effort to suppress the truth. It usually eats you up from the inside out if you try to contain it in silence. In the end you have to decide what truth resides best within you... even if your point of view does not agree with others.”
Source: The Battle For WondLa
“Most wine knowledge does not directly enhance the pleasures to be had in drinking wine but, rather, enhances one's ability to discover such pleasures”
“Most witches don’t believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don’t believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman.”
“Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.”
“Most women are all too familiar with men like Calvin Smith. Men whose sense of prerogative renders them deaf when women say, "No thanks," "Not interested," or even "Fuck off, creep.”
Source: Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
“Most women are attracted to simple things in life. Like men.”
“Most women are bored, because being female is boring. We only get married because it's something to do, and then we have children and find that babies are the only thing more boring than other women.”
“Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.”
Source: The Puppet Masters
“Most women are dissatisfied with their appearance - it's the stuff that fuels the beauty and fashion industries.”
“Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.”
“Most women are frequently labelled “insane” for expressing their misery and failing to act positive. It is form of misogynistic abuse that is also about pushing women towards the doctor’s room, the therapists couch, and the chemist.”
Source: Misogyny Re-Loaded
“Most women are indulgent of themselves. This is a mistake. It should be only the reward of old age.”
“Most women are introspective: "Am I in love? Am I emotionally and creatively fulfilled?" Most men are outrospective: "Did my team win? How's my car?"”
“Most women are more into real estate than sex. They want to own you.”
“Most women are not as young as they are painted.”