"Words that make questions may not be questions at all."
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"The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility."
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"I very rarely want to go back and fix things, because I'm much more interested in the next thing, and in taking what I learned from the things that don't work, and applying them to new things that may work."
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"I may not be the devil, but I know just how he feels."
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"We ought at least, from prudence, never to speak of ourselves, because that is a subject on which we may be sure that other people's views are never in accordance with our own."
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"He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly."
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"It's amazing how words can do that, just shred your insides apart. Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me - such bullshit."
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"I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same."
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"Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies."
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"I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie."
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"Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination."
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"Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur."
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"I don't think I have something that's pronounceable as a philosophy. ... When it was fashionable to say, "May the Force be with you," I always said, "Force yourself." ... I'll say again then, "The Force is within you. Force yourself.""
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"A wrong action may not bring its reaction at once, even as fresh milk turns not sour at once: like a smouldering fire concealed under ashes it consumes the wrongdoer, the fool."
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"An opinion, right or wrong, can never constitute a moral offense, nor be in itself a moral obligation. It may be mistaken; it may involve an absurdity, or a contradiction. It is a truth; or it is an error: it can never be a crime or a virtue."
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"And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed."
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"I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, "Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.""
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"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
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"May we awaken from the dream that we are different."
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"When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize."
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