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"Archetypes resemble the beds of rivers: dried up because the water has deserted them, though it may return at any time. An archetype is something like an old watercourse along which the water of life flowed for a time, digging a deep channel for itself. The longer it flowed the deeper the channel, and the more likely it is that sooner or later the water will return."
"By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation."
"Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone."
"Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
"He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end."
"...for the shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear."
"All the equity investors, in total, will surely bear a performance disadvantage per annum equal to the total croupiers' costs they have jointly elected to bear. This is an inescapable fact of life. And it is also inescapable that exactly half of the investors will get a result below the median result after the croupiers' take, which median result may well be somewhere between unexciting and lousy."
"When Maimonides says that the Messiah will come but that 'he may tarry,' we see the origin of every Jewish shrug from Spinoza to Woody Allen."
"Don't be concerned that you have no position; be concerned how you may fit yourself to occupy one. ."
"Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may show us that some ends cannot be achieved."
"A writer should never install himself before a panorama, however grandiose it may be."
"Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause."
"Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one."
"Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."
"Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted."
"All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor."
"You get what you think about, whether you want it or not. Commit to thinking about what you want, rather than how impossible or difficult that dream may seem."
"I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts."
"There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured."
"There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
