"Evidence from torture may be considered completely untrustworthy"
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"The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body."
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"I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime."
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"If you are well educated, and especially if you are a health professional, you will have to unlearn much of what you've been taught and start afresh with the rather disruptive thought that natural healing may actually work."
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"Into the space of one little hour sins enough may be conjured up by evil tongues to blast the fame of a whole life of virtue."
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"The more observing ones may have seen, but discerning people are usually discreet and often kind, for we usually bleed a little before we begin to discern."
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"The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."
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"And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love."
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"Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits"
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"The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought."
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"A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes."
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"Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it."
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"What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning."
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"History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern."
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"Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen."
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"Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace."
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"It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act of contemplation itself is of course an enjoyment."
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"There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name."
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"I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world still may know bliss, be it only for a brief moment, in the contemplation of his beloved."
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". . . [T]hose persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow."
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