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"My country is in the grips of a major economic crisis. This is causing dramatic consequences for the very existence of Polish families. A permanent economic crisis in Poland may also have serious repercussions for Europe. Thus, Poland ought to be helped and deserves help."
"We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us."
"One may outwit another, but not all the others."
"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an Ideal and strive to reach it."
"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."
"What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder."
"When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be."
"Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy."
"It may be beyond the limits of human intelligence to understand how human intelligence works."
"The most striking aspect of linguistic competence is what we may call the 'creativity of language,' that is, the speaker's ability to produce new sentences, sentences that are immediately UNDERSTOOD by other speakers although they bear no physical resemblance to sentences which are 'familiar."
"All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it."
"Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers."
"Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes."
"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
"Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm."
"Talking much about oneself may be a way of hiding oneself."
"There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
"...chance may do anything."
"Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give."
"I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such."
