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One’s condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one.
Norman Mailer1923–2007Interview in Writers at Work Third Series (1967) edited by George Plimpton
The world’s not what I want it to be. But then no one ever said I had the right to design the world.
Norman Mailer1923–2007TIME interview (1991)
Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
Malcolm X1925–1965Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
- Anger
- Change
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- Change
Out of the experience of an extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.
Nelson Mandela1918–2013Inaugural celebration address (1994)
- Change
- Hope
I stand between two worlds, am at home in neither, and in consequence have rather a hard time of it.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Tonio Kröger (1902), Ch. 9, as translated by Bayard Quincy Morgan
The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few instances of intensity but that is all. I want to find a world in which these instances are united.
Katherine Mansfield1888–1923Letter to S. S. Koteliansky, as quoted in “Always my thoughts & feelings go back to New Zealand” by Vincent O’Sullivan, in NZ Listener Vol 214 No 3556, (July 5-11 2008)
Che sera, sera,
What will be, shall be?
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Life & Death
- Luck
The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.
Steve Martinborn 1945
Every act and event is the inevitable result of prior acts and events and is independent of human will.
Karl Marx1818–1883
The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
Karl Marx1818–1883“Theses on Feuerbach” (1845), Thesis 11, Marx Engels Selected Works,(MESW), Volume I, p. 15
- Change
- Philosophy
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Karl Marx1818–1883The Communist Manifesto (1848)In context
- Change
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir,
Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine,
With a cargo of ivory,
And apes and peacocks,
Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
John Masefield1878–1967Cargoes (1903)In context
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Abraham Maslow1908–1970
It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965The Mixture As Before (1940) “The Treasure”