"Whatever the police or politicians may tell us, this is a violent and threatening place. Living here is dangerous."
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"A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure."
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"It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly."
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"You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears."
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"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."
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"The process may seem strange and yet it is very true. I did not so much gain the knowledge of things by the words, as words by the experience I had of things."
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"That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us."
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"Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say."
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"Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof."
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"As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
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"No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."
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"Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that "It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece."
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"My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss."
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"I'm going to Graceland, for reasons I cannot explain. There's some part of me wants to see Graceland. And I may be advised to defend every love, every ending, or maybe there's no obligations now. Maybe I've a reason to believe we all will be received in Graceland."
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"The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth."
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"The severest justice may not always be the best policy"
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"Liquor may have its defenders, but it has no defense."
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"Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way."
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"I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration."
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"The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us, the chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong."
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