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"There should really not be anything gratuitous in a work of art. Sometimes what seems as if it's gratuitous may be a passage in which a character is being characterized so that the reader comes to know him or her better."
"In a sense, I may not consciously know what I'm doing. I feel that I'm telling a story. I'm a kind of medium by which something is transmitted."
"You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what."
"If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems."
"You know who was wonderful to work with? Was Paul Gleason, may he rest in peace."
"I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my efforts."
"He who is mistaken in an action which he sincerely believes to be right may be an enemy, but retains our esteem."
"It may be taken for granted that, rash as the Americans are, when they are prudent there is good reason for it."
"How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!"
"My house is small, but may heaven grant that it is never full of friends."
"May you be ordinary, as the poet once wished the new-born baby."
"He looked again. Longer this time. She may have ‘forgotten’ to put a bra on that morning. Another oops. “Are you kidding me with that?” he asked."
"The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection."
"We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own"
"The dregs may stir themselves as they please; they fall back to the bottom by their own coarseness."
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made."
"It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable."
"...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered."
"Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?"
