"A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is."
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"An imitation may be quite successful in its own way, but imitation can never be Success. Success is a first-hand creation."
"India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems."
"I may die young, but at least I'll die smart."
"Its important to follow your dreams whatever that may be."
"Come what may, I have been blest."
"This world is not the same to all people. Each one lives in his little domain....Peace and harmony may reign in one person's world; where strife and restlessness in anothers. But whatever the circumstances of one's environment, it consists of both an inner and an outer world. The outside world is the one in which your life engages in action and interaction. The world inside of you determines your happiness or unhappiness."
"Be careful what you choose to do consciously, for unless your will is very strong, that is what you may have to do repeatedly and compulsively through the habit-influencing power of the subconscious mind."
"Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may."
"So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly."
"By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution."
"Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things."
"The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held, but in how they are held; instead of being held dogmatically, they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment."
"Consumption may be regarded as negative production."
"Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good."
"It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one."
"The greatest power of the mass media is the power to ignore. The worst thing about this power is that you may not even know you're using it."
"Granting that we are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense; for they, as it were, see that He is looking upon them, while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them."
"If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won."
"Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting."