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"There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory gods or factory saints or factory fairies. I may be wrong, as I am no commericial expert, but I have not heard of them as yet."
"The great saint may be said to mix all his thoughts with thanks. All goods look better when they look like gifts."
"You may think a crime horrible because you could never commit it. I think it is horrible because I could commit it."
"Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated."
"You can free things from alien or accidental laws, but not from the laws of their own nature. You may, if you like, free a tiger from his bars; but do not free him from his stripes."
"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
"Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'."
"Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed to seeing or hearing without being shocked. ... It may be that your grandmother was an extremely lively and vital animal and that you are a paralytic."
"These are ideas that work for many, and that may well reflect your true understanding of life."
"Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner."
"Today's news, which may be yesterday's anyway, will be eclipsed tomorrow."
"Afraid? Batman's not afraid of anything. It's me. I'm afraid. I'm afraid that The Joker may be right about me. Sometimes…I question the rationality of my actions. And I’m afraid that when I walk through those asylum gates... when I walk into Arkham and the doors close behind me... it’ll be just like coming home."
"Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations."
"The Gospel net never breaks; whosoever will may come"
"Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically."
"Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one."
"Bohemian Grove seems to be a kind of frat house affair. Bilderberg [philosophy] may be marginally more serious. The CFR is transparent. You can read their publications. In the 18th century it perhaps made some sense to conjure up the Illuminati and Masons. Not since."
"The 'free-floating intellectual' may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect."
"There is still much debate about whether torture has been effective in eliciting information - the assumption being, apparently, that if it is effective, then it may be justified."
"I think that we have basically nothing in the field of human behavior. Maybe that is just a condition of temporary ignorance. But it may be that we are simply not intellectually equipped to develop such a theory."
