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Serena Williams Tennis Player
May

"I want it to be more natural. Right now it feels really forced. Seems like I've never done a curtsy before, which may be true. But I'm looking forward to nailing it."

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Seth Godin Author, Entrepreneur
May

"While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there's no reason to believe you'll succeed at it tomorrow."

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Richard Lloyd Musician
May

"They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't."

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Sheena Iyengar Psychologist
May

"Too many choices can overwhelm us and cause us to not choose at all. For businesses, this means that if they offer us too many choices, we may not buy anything."

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Sigmund Freud Neurologist, Psychoanalyst
May

"When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so."

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Rita Mae Brown Author, Activist
May

"Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act."

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Simone Weil Philosopher, Activist
May

"We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do."

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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
May

"The common problem, yours, mine, everyone's Is ? not to fancy what were fair in life Provided it could be ? but, finding first What may be, then find how to make it fair Up to our means."

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Robert Browning Poet, Playwright
May

"One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it."

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Slavoj Žižek Philosopher, Cultural Critic
May

"I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
May

"Oh child, may you be happier than your father, but in all other respects alike. And then you would not be bad."

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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
May

"Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal."

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