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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux on communism

We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
Manilius on death

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann on education

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Horace Mann on evil

This was love at first sight, love everlasting: a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected-in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness; it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life.
Thomas Mann on love

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.
Katherine Mansfield on risk

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
Marcel Marceau on inspiration

We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
Jacques Maritain on love

I choose to risk my significance to live so that which came to me as see goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom goes on as fruit.
Dawna Markova on risk

Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Aeschylus on marriage

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.
Jacques Barzun on sports

... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
Julia Marlowe on acting

Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Don Marquis on bore

It is better to be happy for a momen tand be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Don Marquis on happiness

The successful people are the ones who can think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.
Don Marquis on success

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.
Donald R. Marquis on writing

It is better to fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than to succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.
Peter Marshall on success

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.
Martial on fame

An honest man is always a child.
Martial on honesty

There's someone out there for everyone-even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them. (L.A. Story)
Steve Martin on destiny