"We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker."
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"May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself."
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"There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live things that ended up on the Internet. Rather than try to stop it, we like it. If nobody gave a crap about you, they wouldn't bother to bootleg you."
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"I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory."
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"Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
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"Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already."
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"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Let me expand a bit. I sense that you may feel that I am free of problems. Let me assure you that I have the same anxieties and insecurities as anyone in this auditorium - maybe more."
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"You have made some mistakes and you may not be where you want to be, but that has nothing to do with your future."
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"May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!"
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"Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant."
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"The South may not always be right, but by God it's never wrong!"
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"The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home."
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"Confidence applied properly is the path of genius. You must always be in a state of confidence. And the way you sustain a state of confidence is by testing yourself. Difficult quagmires that may occur; there's always a test. You have to seek them out. You constantly have to test yourself to prepare for these quagmires. That's why I always put myself to the test."
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"He who knows only his own side of the case (argument) knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion"
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"You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter."
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"The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'"
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"Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."
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"Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again"
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"Indecision may or may not be my problem."
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"If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway."
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