"Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain."
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"Give yourself permission to enjoy being gay. You do have to give yourself permission. You have been told you may not. Give yourself permission to be free."
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"Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend."
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"Take the first chance that you get, because you may never get another one."
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"[Margaret] Thatcher had just become prime minister; there was talk about whether it was an advance to have a woman prime minister if it was someone with policies like hers: She may be a woman but she isn't a sister, she may be a sister but she isn't a comrade."
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"Fearlessness may be a gift, but perhaps most precious is courage from cultivating the habit of refusing to let fear dictate one's actions."
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"Every other author may aspire to praise; the lexicographer can only hope to escape reproach."
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"He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world."
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"For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road."
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"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music."
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"Anything I've done up till May 27th 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life."
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"God may delay, but He always comes."
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"A drop of ink may make a million think."
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"A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom."
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"Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God."
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"Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice."
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"Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity."
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"It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless."
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"Love not what you are but only what you may become."
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"Yesterday is done. Tomorrow never comes. Today is here. If you don't know what to do, sit still and listen. You may hear something. Nobody knows."
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