"A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness."
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"I may not be a lion,but I am lions cub and I have lion's heart"
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"Every star may be a sun to someone."
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"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten."
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"There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot."
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"You possess a non-renewable resource, which is headed toward total depletion and that resource is time. You can either invest your life or let it dribble through your fingers like sand in an hour glass. If there is ever a time to redeem every second, every minute it is now. You may never have tomorrow. You can't count your days, but with the Lord as your Savior you can make your days count."
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"Not one of us knows what effect his life produces, and what he gives to others; that is hidden from us and must remain so, though we are often allowed to see some little fraction of it, so that we may not lose courage."
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"I may be personable, but I assure you I am a lion."
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"You may command nature to the extent only in which you are willing to obey her."
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"View life as a series of movie frames, the ending and meaning may not be apparent until the very end of the movie, and yet, each of the hundreds of individual frames has meaning within the context of the whole movie."
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"I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may."
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"The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all."
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"Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless."
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"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."
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"Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence."
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"Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations."
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"May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye."
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"The body of People may with Respect resist intolerable Tyranny."
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"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."
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"It is difficult to retain what you may have learned unless you should practice it. -Difficile est tenere quae acceperis nisi exerceas"
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