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"If your message to the universe is gimme, gimme, gimme, the universe's response back to that kind of mentality is exactly the same. The universe will say right back to you over and over again, gimme, gimme, gimme. If you shift that and you say to the universe, to the world, how may I serve? How may I serve? The universe's response back to you is how may I serve you? How may I serve you?"
"If you have to learn it from a self-help book, you may be beyond help."
"Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created."
"May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep."
"to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief."
"Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room."
". . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death"
"Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery."
"Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor."
"The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden."
"Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists."
"The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may."
"Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection."
"Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought."
"In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible."
"No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace."
"Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth."
"Women may fail when there is no strength in man"
"Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing."
"Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past."
