"Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live."
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."
"You're an evolving and transforming person, right? And how do we capture that dynamics of sexuality in that complex sense? There may be times when someone feels oneself more overly masculine or maybe more feminine, or where the terms themselves become confused, where passivity and activity also don't maintain their usual meaning."
"What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them."
"The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it."
"It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
"But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me."
"May you stay Forever Young"
"Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship."
"We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful."
"We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience."
"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity."
"The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results."
"To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race."
"I know who I am and who I may be, if I choose."
"If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; Be honest and frank anyway."
"However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal."
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable."
"The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland."
"Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem."