The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist.
- Henry Mille - In Art
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The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to ahve artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
- Henry Miller - In On Change
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
- Olin Miller - In Forgiveness
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If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
- Alice Duer Miller - In Friendship
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I rant, therefore I am.
- Dennis Miller - In Humor
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My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
- Spike Milligan - In Humor
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Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.
- Warren Miller - In Life
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
- Arthur Miller - In Life
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Often the difference between a successful marriage and a mediocre one consists of leaving about three or four things a day unsaid.
- Harlan Miller - In Marriage
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Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet.
- Roger Miller - In Nature
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There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.
- Harry Millner - In Nature
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Environmentalists have long been fond of saying that the sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.
- Stephanie Mills - In Nature
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You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.
- Harold MacMillan - In Politics
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Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
- John Stuart Mill - In Politics
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill - In Politics
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A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
- Dennis Miller - In Politics
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Born again?! No, I'm not. Excuse me for getting it right the first time.
- Dennis Miller - In Religion
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No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.
- Harold MacMillan - In Success
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It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.
- John Stuart Mill - In Technology
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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
- John Stuart Mill - In War
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