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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

Memorize the selfstarter DO IT NOW! DO IT NOW! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Melancholy sees the worst of things, things as they may be, and not as they are. It looks upon a beautiful face, and sees but a grinning skull.

Men are not really born either hopelessly idle, or preternaturally industrious. They may move in one direction or the other as will or circumstances dictate, but it is open to any man to work.

Men may feel just disempowered by intimacy, by being close to a woman, and also by feeling the tender feelings that they're ashamed of.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

Men may be way behind in creating choices for themselves, but have actually been quiet supporters of the choices women want for themselves.

Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Men sometimes speak as if the study of the classics would at length make way for more modern and practical studies; but the adventurous student will always study classics, in whatever language they may be written and however ancient they may be. For what are the classics but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?... We might as well omit to study Nature because she is old.

Mental activity is like a deadly poisonous cobra. If we don't interfere with a cobra, how poisonous it may be, it simply goes its own away.

Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.

Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.

Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.

Men make their own happiness, and a man may be respected even though only a slave.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

Men may be from Mars and women from Venus, but I'm from the Jersey Shore.

Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.

Men may scoff, and men may pray, But they pay Every pleasure with a pain.

Mental health treatment is most likely available to the officers, but they may be reluctant to access it due to cultural beliefs within the force, fear of stigma, etc.

Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby those fruits may be eaten.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

Mike Wallace's interviews may make great television, but they don't produce great evidence.

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

Mike [Mann], can you delete an e-mails you may have had with Keith [Trenberth] re AR4? Keith will do likewise...Can you also e-mail Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his e-mail address...We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Misbeliefs in one's inefficacy may retard development of the very subskills upon which more complex performances depend

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

M.I.T. has a reputation for turning out Dilberts. They may be brilliant in what they do, but no one can understand what they say.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests.

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

Modernism may be seen as an attempt to reconstruct the world in the absence of God.

Modest plainness sets off sprightly wit, For works may have more with than does 'em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.

Money cannot be applied to the *general welfare*, otherwise than by an application of it to some *particular* measure conducive to the general welfare. Whenever, therefore, money has been raised by the general authority, and is to be applied to a particular measure, a question arises whether the particular measure be within the enumerated authorities vested in Congress. If it be, the money requisite for it may be applied to it; if it be not, no such application can be made.

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".