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Mnouchkine, Ariane
1934–
1934–
1
A cultural Chernobyl.
of Euro Disney
A cultural Chernobyl.
of Euro Disney
in
Harper's Magazine
July 1992.
Mola, Emilio
1887–1937
1887–1937
1
Fifth column.
an extra body of supporters claimed by General Mola in a broadcast as being within Madrid when he besieged the city with four columns of Nationalist forces
Fifth column.
an extra body of supporters claimed by General Mola in a broadcast as being within Madrid when he besieged the city with four columns of Nationalist forces
in
New York Times
16 and 17 October 1936
Molière
1622–73
1622–73
1
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?What the devil was he doing in that galley?
géronte
: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
sganarelle
: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.
Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.
L'homme est, je vous l'avoue, un méchant animal.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
One should eat to live, and not live to eat.
L'Avare
(1669) act 3, sc. 1
All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(1671) act 2, sc. 4
Good heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
(1671) act 2, sc. 4
Que diable allait-il faire dans cette galère?What the devil was he doing in that galley?
Les Fourberies de Scapin
(1671) act 2, sc. 11
géronte
: It seems to me you are locating them wrongly: the heart is on the left and the liver is on the right.
sganarelle
: Yes, in the old days that was so, but we have changed all that, and we now practise medicine by a completely new method.
Le Médecin malgré lui
(1667) act 2, sc. 4
Here [in Paris] they hang a man first, and try him afterwards.
Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
(1670) act 1, sc. 5
L'homme est, je vous l'avoue, un méchant animal.
Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
Le Tartuffe
(1669) act 5, sc. 6
Moltke, Helmuth von
1800–91
1800–91
1
Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement of the world…Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.
Everlasting peace is a dream, and not even a pleasant one; and war is a necessary part of God's arrangement of the world…Without war the world would deteriorate into materialism.
letter to Dr J. K. Bluntschli, 11 December 1880
Mondale, Walter
1928–
1928–
1
When I hear your new ideas I'm reminded of that ad, "Where's the beef?"
When I hear your new ideas I'm reminded of that ad, "Where's the beef?"
in a televised debate with Gary Hart, 11 March 1984
Monmouth, James, Duke of
1649–85
1649–85
1
Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell.
to his executioner
Do not hack me as you did my Lord Russell.
to his executioner
T. B. Macaulay
History of England
vol. 1 (1849) ch. 5
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