The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (291 page)

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Mah
y
na Buddhist texts
1
Where there is no perception, appellation, conception, or conventional expression, there one speaks of "perfect wisdom".

Perfect Wisdom in 8,000 Lines
(
c.
100
bc
–100
ad
) ch. 7, v. 177

2
Form is emptiness and the very emptiness is form; emptiness does not differ from form, nor does form differ from emptiness; whatever is form, that is emptiness, whatever is emptiness, that is form.

Heart Sutra
(4th century
ad
) v. 3

Mahler, Gustav
1860–1911
1
Fortissimo at last!
on seeing Niagara Falls

K. Blaukopf
Gustav Mahler
(1973) ch. 8

2
The symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.

remark to Sibelius, Helsinki, 1907

Mailer, Norman
1923–
1
So we think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America, Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards.

Marilyn
(1973)

2
All the security around the American president is just to make sure the man who shoots him gets caught.

in
Sunday Telegraph
4 March 1990

Maimonides
(
Moses ben Maimon
) 1135–1204
1
When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing ten thousand fools—I prefer to address myself to the man.

The Guide for the Perplexed
, introduction

Maistre, Joseph de
1753–1821
1
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.Every country has the government it deserves.

Lettres et Opuscules Inédits
(1851) vol. 1, letter 53 (15 August 1811)

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