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Martin Luther Theologian
May

"Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have always received more than I asked for. God may delay, but He always comes."

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Epictetus Philosopher
May

"You become what you give your attention to...If you yourself don't choose what thoughts and images you expose yourself to, someone else will, and their motives may not be the highest."

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Edith Wharton Novelist, Short Story Writer
May

"If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration."

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Bryan Adams Singer-Songwriter
May

"I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was."

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Billy Graham Evangelist, Author
May

"It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification."

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Alice Miller Psychologist, Author
May

"An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time."

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Neil Gaiman Author
May

"What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul."

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Margaret Fuller Transcendentalist, Writer
May

"It is so true that a woman may be in love with a woman, and a man with a man. It is pleasant to be sure of it, because it is undoubtedly the same love that we shall feel when we are angels."

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Marlon Brando Actor, Director
May

"Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed. But if there is someone who is convinced that Jack Nicholson and I are lovers, may they continue to do so. I find it amusing."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
May

"A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century."

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