"Not all of life's roads are set fast, for a man may do this or a man may do that and not even the gods know the mind of a man."
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"Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light."
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"Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself"
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"The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore."
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"It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits"
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"It's quite possible we may actually be looking at some kind of super-sanity here. A brilliant new modification of human perception, more suited to urban life at the end of the twentieth century...He creates himself each day. He sees himself as the lord of misrule and the world as a theatre of the absurd."
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"Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--"
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"I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing."
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"As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong."
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"The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
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"The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next."
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"Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field."
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"You may only call me "Mrs. Darcy"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy."
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"He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance."
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"You may not believe in evolution, and that is all right. How we humans came to be the way we are is far less important than how we should act now to get out of the mess we have made for ourselves."
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"One may receive the information but miss the teaching."
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"[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]"
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"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
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"To the somnambulist, sleep-walking may seem more pleasant and less hazardous than wakeful walking, but the latter is the wiser mode of locomotion in the congested traffic of a modern community. It is about time to abandon judicial somnambulism."
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"If you are lucky and work very hard, you may someday get to experience freedom from the known."
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