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"Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that."
"Some people may be famous for creating a pencil sharpener. I'm famous for my tits."
"All creatures are flawed, but out of the flaw may come the universe."
"Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?"
"May your marriage bring you all the exquisite excitements a marriage should bring, and may life grant you also patience, tolerance, and understanding."
"Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses."
"We may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!!"
"The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself."
"You may travel far and wide but never will you find the boundaries of the soul."
"If one uses one's intellect to become master over the unlimited emotions, it may produce a sorry and diversionary effect upon the intellect."
"The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires."
"What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear."
"One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?"
"There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat."
"God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him."
"I may be wrong, but I'm never in doubt."
"Tomorrow you may want to persuade somebody to do something. Before you speak, pause and as yourself, "How can I make this person want to do it?"
"May love be your guide in every moment of your life."
"Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
"Ye may have a greater prince, but ye shall never have a more loving prince."
