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"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."
"Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life."
"What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about."
"Too much sanity may be madness!"
"Heed the spark or you may dread the fire."
"You may imitate, but never counterfeit."
"Religion is, as it were, the calm bottom of the sea at its deepest point, which remains calm however high the waves on the surface may be."
"At times our need for a sympathetic gesture is so great that we care not what exactly it signifies or how much we may have to pay for it afterwards."
"Whatever the outcome may be, the important thing is to step forward on the path that you believe is right."
"We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. They they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred."
"To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath."
"One may not eat what has a face."
"What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others."
"Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants."
"Individual security bargains may be located by the process of security analysis practically at any time. They can be bought with good overall results at all periods except when the general market itself is clearly in a selling range for investors. They show up to best advantage during the years in which the market remains in a relatively narrow and neutral area."
"You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not."
"Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself."
"We may well have a competitive advantage buying decent businesses at decent prices. But they won't be fabulous businesses and fabulous prices. There's too much competition and money out there, with many buyout specialists."
"No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis."
"It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable."
