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"If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken."
"Of course, it is not the employer who pays wages. He only handles the money. It is the product that pays wages and it is the management that arranges the production so that the product may pay the wages."
"We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us."
"Who stops learning may be old."
"For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children"
"This Fourth of July is yours, not mine. You may rejoice, I must mourn."
"You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you."
"Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression."
"Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit."
"There is nothing so big nor so crazy that one out of a million technological societies may not feel itself driven to do, provided it is physically possible."
"Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we profess to know, may not be all the while panting for exterior angles, sympathetic with the interior, or sullenly repining at the fact that it cannot be inscribed in a circle?"
"I had to watch the Republican stuff which makes me feel even older than I am. By the time I get through the Democrats, I may be dead. I don't know how much older I can get."
"Chaos, if it does not harden into a pattern of disorder, may be more fruitful than a regularity too easily accepted and a success too easily achieved."
"Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions, not as proprietary things."
"Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, and it means leisure, it means liberty."
"[Rumors are a] vehicle for anxieties and aspirations that may not be openly expressed."
"As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious"
"The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'"
"We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."
"The May of life blooms once and never again."
