"Some things may work, but they definitely won't work every time. Some things may work at various times."
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"Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man"
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"It is not the feeling sure of a doctrine (be it what it may) which I call an assumption of infallibility. It is the undertaking to decide that question for others, without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side. And I denounce and reprobate this pretension not the less, if put forth on the side of my most solemn convictions."
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"Better to not know which moment may be your last. Every morsel of your entire being alive to the infinite mystery of it all."
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"What I'm really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know."
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"Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousness and truth. If it is not that - if it is not moral in its effect - then love is no more than an exaggerated form of pleasure."
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"One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be."
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"By exhaustively examining one's own mind,one may understand his nature.One who understands his own nature understands Heaven."
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"You may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying, you will make a man that will live longer than he."
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"The poet may say or sing, not as things were, but as they ought to have been; but the historian must pen them, not as they ought to have been, but as they really were."
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"You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things."
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"The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'"
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"All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think."
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"This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
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"The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own."
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"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."
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"I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more."
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"The Character which a youth acquires in the early part of his Life is of great importance towards his future prosperity-one false step may prove irretrievable to his future usefulness."
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"I will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. It is not the Constitution as I would like to have it, but as it is, that is to be defended. The Constitution will not be preserved & defended until it is enforced & obeyed in every part of every one of the United States. It must be so respected, obeyed, enforced and defended, and let the grass grow where it may."
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"My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."
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