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Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot.
Misfortune shows those who are not friends. -- Aristotle
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
-- James Russell Lowell...
Misinformation Central.
Misinformation is the cruelest computer virus of all.
Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion drive
But yet the light that led astray Was light from heaven....
Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun.
-- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Merchant of Venice -- Act ii, Sc. 1...
misocainea (miss-o-KEE-nee-ya), n. An abnormal aversion to anything new.
Miso with the smell of miso is not good miso. Enlightenment with the smell of enlightenment is not the real enlightenment.
-- Zen saying...
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned.
A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely....

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