"Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow."
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"Races and religions may have changed, but the marketplace, the living quarters, pilgrimage sites, places of worship, have remained the same. Venus is replaced by the Virgin, but the same life goes on."
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"When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I."
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"It is important to direct our intelligence with good intentions. Without intelligence, we cannot accomplish very much. Without good intentions, the way we exercise of our intelligence may have destructive results."
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"... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too."
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"Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?"
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"A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating."
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"If I must fall, may it be from a high place."
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"...Ere midnight’s frown and morning’s smile, ere thou and peace may meet."
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"Your dreams may not be happening, and things aren't turning out the way you expected, but that doesn't mean your life is spinning out of control. It just means you're not in control."
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"All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry."
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"May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps."
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"I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."
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"It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax."
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"The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the consideration of rhythm, rhyme, meter, and versification... the subject is exceedingly simple; one tenth of it, possibly may be called ethical; nine tenths, however, appertains to the mathematics."
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"A warrior may change his metal, but not his heart."
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"Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive."
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"It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is."
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"Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves."
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"It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it."
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