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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
May

"Today, you always know whether you are on the Internet or on your PC's hard drive. Tomorrow, you will not care and may not even know."

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Blaise Pascal Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher
May

"He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright."

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Bob Marley Musician, Singer-Songwriter
May

"The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you."

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Albert Schweitzer Philosopher, Theologian
May

"I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others."

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Alexandre Dumas Novelist, Playwright
May

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

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Anais Nin Writer, Diarist
May

"I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no ugliness, accept nothing of the world but the one I made myself. I wrote, lived, loved like Don Quixote, and on the day of my death I will say: ‘Excuse me, it was all a dream,’ and by that time I may have found one who will say: ‘Not at all, it was true, absolutely true.’"

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Aristotle Philosopher
May

"Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no."

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Ward Churchill Academic, Activist
May

"One of the things I've suggested is that it may be that more 9/11s are necessary."

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist
May

"A winner's attitude: it may be difficult, but it's possible. A loser's attitude: It may be possible, but it's too difficult."

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Saint Augustine Theologian, Philosopher
May

"O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will."

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
May

"Nobody doubts that he exists, though he may doubt the existence of God. If he finds out the truth about himself and discovers his own source, this is all that is required."

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May

"But after all I find in my work an echo of what struck me. I see that nature has told me something, has spoken to me, and that I have put it down in shorthand. In my shorthand there may be words that cannot be deciphered. There may be mistakes or gap"

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Virgil Poet
May

"Trust not the horse, O Trojans. Be it what it may, I fear the Grecians even when they offer gifts."

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Thomas Jefferson Politician, Founding Father
May

"I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures."

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Thornton Wilder Playwright, Novelist, Poet
May

"We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind."

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Seneca the Younger Philosopher, Statesman
May

"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit"

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Spencer Abraham Politician
May

"I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least."

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Sri Aurobindo Philosopher, Poet, Politician
May

"There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed."

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Robert Louis Stevenson Author, Poet
May

"There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may."

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