"Silence may be as variously shaded as speech."
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"Allowing God to charge our lives that we may empower people around us to live In a greater relationship with him."
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"You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and flamboyance is not illegal. It may be detestable, it may be offensive, but it's not illegal."
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"Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
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"Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future."
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"Don't take my devils away, because my angels may flee too."
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"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."
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"God, Who is everywhere, never leaves us. Yet He seems sometimes to be present, sometimes to be absent. If we do not know Him well, we do not realize that He may be more present to us when He is absent than when He is present."
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"It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier."
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"The same wind is blowing, and yet one of us may be cold and the other not."
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"One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them."
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"Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye."
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"May be she’ll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain."
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"Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded."
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"His success may be great, but be it ever so great the wheel of fortune may turn again and bring him down into the dust."
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"I may be uninspiring, but I'll be damned if I'm alien."
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"May the devil himself splatter you with dung."
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"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."
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"What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk."
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"One of the dangers of having a lot of money is that you may be quite satisfied with the kinds of happiness money can give and so fail to realize your need for God. If everything seems to come simply by signing checks, you may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God."
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