"By touching you may kill, by keeping away you may possess."
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"Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber."
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"I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be."
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"I have choices," I insisted, refusing to break eye contact. "We both do. I may have to make mine carefully, and make a few compromises along the way, but I have a choice. I choose you."
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"We may both be bad, but there’s a huge difference between us—I’m not content with being this way."
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"We are all aware that corruption is pervasive. It operates at every level. The poor may carry its greatest burden, but it is an affliction that every Indian is desperate to be rid of."
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"And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave."
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"There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages."
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"It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit."
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"Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right."
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"Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see."
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"Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit."
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"Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively."
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"The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth."
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"An action of God may be the only thing that can save the Church today."
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"The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance."
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"Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony."
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"We may be partial, but Fate is not."
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"Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty."
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"As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it."
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