"It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind."
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"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new."
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"For as laws are necessary that good manners may be preserved, so there is need of good manner that laws may be maintained. [It., Perche, cosi come i buoni costumi, per mantenersi, hanno bisogno delli leggi; cosi le leggi per ossevarsi, hanno bisogno de' buoni costumi.]"
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"I am a prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume."
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"Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty."
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"I am just going outside and I may be some time"
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"A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
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"You may not be interested in strategy, but strategy is interested in you."
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"No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself."
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"You may charge me with murder--or want of sense-- (We are all of us weak at times): But the slightest approach to a false pretence Was never among my crimes!"
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"We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure."
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"Woman is essentially unpeaceful, like the cat, however well she may have trained herself to present an appearance of peace."
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"If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him."
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"It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not."
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"You may repeat the most marvelous poems. And that is not worth a cent if you don't live it."
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"Somebody said you have to love what you do, but that's not necessarily true. What is true is that you have to love the opportunity. The opportunity to build life, future, health, success and fortune. Knocking on someone's door or making that extra call may not be something you love to do, but you love the opportunity of what might be behind that door or call."
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"The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability."
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"The fire and excitement may be gone now that we don't go out there and sing them anymore, but the ring of fire still burns around you and I, keeping our love hotter than a pepper sprout."
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"Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory."
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"We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!"
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