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"I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you."
"Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the 'time to be right' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along."
"As powerful as anyone may claim God to be, somehow he always needs money."
"Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions."
"As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single real triumph of my life. Anyone may steal what he likes from me."
"As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society."
"As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost."
"Worry is a down payment on a problem you may never have"
"May all of your cards be live and may all of your pots be monsters."
"However rich I may have been, I have always lived like a poor man."
"I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils."
"If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!"
"A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady."
"You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back."
"The day is not far off when one ordinary carrot may be pregnant with revolution."
"the ultimate aim of government is not to rule, or restrain by fear, nor to exact obedience, but to free every man from fear that he may live in all possible security... In fact the true aim of government is liberty."
"We may define therapy as a search for value."
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
"About one thing the Englishman has a particularly strict code. If a bird says Cluk bik bik bik bik and caw you may kill it, eat it or ask Fortnums to pickle it in Napoleon brandy with wild strawberries. If it says tweet it is a dear and precious friend and you'd better lay off it if you want to remain a member of Boodles."
"The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right."
