"We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened."
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"Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home."
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"Set a great example. Someone may imitate it."
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"It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts; but until this has occurred, words do not count."
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"The science of pure mathematics, in its modern developments, may claim to be the most original creation of the human spirit."
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"I have no personal vendetta against Clarence Thomas. I seek only to provide the committee with information which it may regard as relevant"
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"Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it."
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"Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him."
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"The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind."
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"Make sense who may. I switch off."
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"A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!"
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"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."
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"And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence."
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"Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation."
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"We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves."
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"May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books."
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"Christ is born to us today, in order that he may appear to the whole world through us."
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"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."
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"Your own photography is never enough. Every photographer who has lasted has depended on other peoples pictures too - photographs that may be public or private, serious or funny, but that carry with them a reminder of community."
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"We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are."
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