"Unless I'm wrong I but obey The urge of a song: I'm-bound-away! And I may return If dissatisfied With what I learn From having died."
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"I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest."
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"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."
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"The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours."
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"You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry."
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"I may be a fool, but I intend to be a live fool."
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"An arrow may not be a shocklance, yet it can still kill you."
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"Schemes within schemes. The Great Serpent is a good sign for you Aes Sedai, I think. Someday you may swallow yourselves by accident."
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"If you wish, you may call me Rand Sedai."
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"Remember that any meal can be your last. You chose to travel with us, so tonight you will eat fish. Tomorrow, you may die."
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"You know, you're living in a society where if you say something that you might think may be OK, when it's more sensitive to that particular culture. You have to be very, very careful."
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"Life is such a precious gift. Whatever life throws at us, if we could just learn to get through that day and hang on to the next, you never know what may come. It may get worse, but you never know."
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"There should be no boundaries to human endeavor. However bad life may seem, there is always hope."
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"I was asked to speak about Canadian politics. It may not be true, but it's legendary that if you're like all Americans, you know almost nothing except for your own country. Which makes you probably knowledgeable about one more country than most Canadians."
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"I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
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"In our struggle to understand the history of life, we must learn where to place the boundary between contingent and unpredictable events that occur but once and the more repeatable, lawlike phenomenon that may pervade life's history as generalities."
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"We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor to rescue human beings from their legends in science if only so that we may understand the process of scientific thought aright."
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"Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these `higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal mechanism: differential reproductive success of individuals."
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"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."
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"A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise."
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